Apollonia Mathia (died 18 March 2011) was a South Sudanese journalist and social activist.
[2][3] Before she joined the Ministry of Finance as a secretary in 1978, Mathia worked as an Information Manager at the Catholic Church.
[4] She left the Juba Post in 2008 and joined the BBC Monitoring Service as their correspondent in South Sudan.
[2][4] Mathia worked at a number of jobs and helped found the Union of Journalists of Southern Sudan (UJOSS).
[5] At the time of her death in 2011, Mathia was Executive Director of the Association for Media Women in South Sudan (AMWISS) which she had helped co-found in 2008 alongside Veronica Lucy Gordon and others[3] On 18 March 2011, Mathia died as a result of an accident when a motorcycle she was on was crushed by a lorry.