# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sonia-bunting
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:58:27.448Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sonia-bunting"
name: "Sonia Bunting"
slug: "sonia-bunting"
description: "Sonia Bunting, OLS was a South African journalist, and a political and anti-apartheid activist. After being charged with treason and imprisoned, being detained a second time, and barred from publishing, she and her husband went into exile in London, where she joined the Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM) and organised the World Campaign for the Release of South African Political Prisoners. When the African National Congress (ANC) ban was lifted in 1991, she returned to South Africa where she was involved in political activism until her death in 2001. She was posthumously honored by the government of South Africa with the Order of Luthuli in Silver in 2010."
tagline: "South African political and human rights activist (1922-2001)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4f/Sonia_Bunting.jpg"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1922-12-09"
deathDate: "2001-03-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.1
  momentum:             25
  historical:           5.739849333333334
  currentAttention:     100
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86%DB%8C%D8%A7_%D8%A8%D9%86%D9%B9%D9%86%DA%AF"
    title: "سونیا بنٹنگ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%A7_%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AC_(%D8%B5%D8%AD%D9%81%D9%89)"
    title: "سونيا بونتينج (صحفى)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonia_Bunting"
    title: "Sonia Bunting"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonia_Bunting"
    title: "Sonia Bunting"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ff.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonia_Bunting"
    title: "Sonia Bunting"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonia_Bunting"
    title: "Sonia Bunting"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonia_Bunting"
    title: "Sonia Bunting"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q50300230"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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