# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/phumzile-van-damme
# Generated: 2026-08-15T12:38:01.785Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/phumzile-van-damme"
name: "Phumzile van Damme"
slug: "phumzile-van-damme"
description: "Phumzile Thelma Van Damme is a South African tech consultant and activist who specialises in combating political disinformation and misinformation. A former politician, she represented the Democratic Alliance (DA) in the National Assembly of South Africa between May 2014 and May 2021. She was the party's Shadow Minister of Communications from October 2015 to December 2020."
tagline: "South African politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Phumzile_van_Damme.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1983-07-20"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           40.32
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.745357333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/zilevandamme"
    handle:    "zilevandamme"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phumzile_van_Damme"
    title: "Phumzile van Damme"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phumzile_Van_Damme"
    title: "Phumzile Van Damme"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phumzile_van_Damme"
    title: "Phumzile van Damme"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phumzile_Van_Damme"
    title: "Phumzile Van Damme"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Phumzile_van_Damme"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://fr.wikiquote.org/wiki/Phumzile_van_Damme"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q38864258"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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