# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mathews-phosa
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:01:49.422Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mathews-phosa"
name: "Mathews Phosa"
slug: "mathews-phosa"
description: "Nakedi Mathews Phosa is a South African attorney and politician and was also an anti-apartheid activist. He is a former premier of Mpumalanga as well as a member of the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress (ANC). Phosa ran for President of the ANC in 2017 but lost to Cyril Ramaphosa."
tagline: "South African politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mathews_Phosa_1998_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1952-09-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.9
  momentum:             0.4834254143646409
  historical:           5.293990666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathews_Phosa"
    title: "Mathews Phosa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathews_Phosa"
    title: "Mathews Phosa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%AB%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%B3_%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B3%D8%A7"
    title: "ماثيوس فوسا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathews_Phosa"
    title: "Mathews Phosa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathews_Phosa"
    title: "Mathews Phosa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathews_Phosa"
    title: "Mathews Phosa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1908415"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump