All I hear on the streets is about how good it is that Muslims are no longer in positions of power and how us coconuts have to roll along in the one bunch.
No, CommonMan says Rabuka has been dividing the iTaukei since 1987. If that’s a more widespread view among the grassroots in the vanua, the next election isn’t the forgone conclusion Rabuka’s supporters think it is.
You raise a pertinent point. What happens to the Indo-Fijians when the iTaukei unite under a single party? The truth is that pre-1987, the iTaukei were more multiracial in their political leanings than the NFP. While most Indo-Fijians votes NFP and later Labour between 1972 and 1987. The majority of the iTaukei voted Alliance, the only true multiracial, multicultural party in all of Fiji’s post-independence history.
1987 is a watershed moment because it marks a turning point in the voting proclivities of Fiji’s citizens, one where identity and not policy increasingly became a core issue in the way a vote was cast. So Rabuka not only divided the iTaukei, but he also made racial identity a fundamental theme in the next few decades of the country’s political landscape. So he has not just divided the iTaukei, he has turned the nation into ethnic enclaves.
CommonMan. The “multiracial” Itaukei from that pre-1987 era spawned the most radical racist of them all – to whit the Pedo President, the vakalbures, the tuisawaus, the mataitinis.
The question to be asked then is where they multiracial or, political opportunists who could not get an alliance ticket? Same thing with the Hindis who stood under alliance tickets in far flung areas which were itaukei strongholds with a smattering of Hindis.
I agree that the alliance was the most multicultural ( they united all the different iTaukei confederacies – cultures) but they were not the most multiracial by any means – that mantle rests with Labour, and then FFP.
There is a difference between multicultural and multiracial as I am sure GD will tell you.
You are entitled to your own opinions but not to your own facts. And the fact is that the Alliance Party won 25% of Indo-Fijian support in the 1972 General Elections, all three General Communal Seats in addition to all 12 seats in the iTaukei Communal seats and also captured all three cross voting national seats in the Western division which was the stronghold of NFP. The outright majority of NFP seats came from the Indo-Fijian Communal.
Meanwhile here’s the Alliance Cabinet lineup:
Prime Minister: Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara
Deputy Prime Minister: Ratu Sir Edward Cakobau
Minister for Finance: Charles Stinson
Minister for Communications, Works, and Tourism: Penaia Ganilau (appointed via the Senate)
Attorney General: John Falvey (appointed via the Senate)
Minister for Fijian Affairs: Ratu William Toganivalu
Minister for Urban Development, Housing, and Social Welfare: Vijay R. Singh
Minister for Labour: Jonati Mavoa
Minister for Health: James Shankar Singh.
It’s called a representative government.
Conman Rambosays
Commonman should expose Conman Rolex Rambo, Conman Baimaan, and all conartists in this con govenmnt.
Upcoming change in Govt will be caused by all common people. Landslide victory coming for new Govt. Common people fed up with scandals, corruption, and this oversized and incompetent govt. Common People want to see real developments making headlines- not all the legal bungle jungle that we see everyday.
He has divided the narrow-minded, racist, ethno-nationalists that can only think from the “bubble of me” from everyone who is capable of rising higher to consider systems that work for everyone.
He has divided the Hitler and Trump type of brains in Fiji (they sure are wired up differently) from those capable of a forethought, the bigger picture and a sense of community.
The natural flow on effect is further division between these diminutive thinkers as they all push self-interest, and government and institutions descend into chaos as we are all witnessing.
We can’t expect any different when these dangerous divisive people are in powerful positions. We can only hope to sideline them as minority extremest groups and vote them out of power.
Snake Rolex Rambo has three main criteria when appointing individuals to top posts in the government: must hail from the provinces of Bua, Macuata and Cakaudrove, Old Boys network and military background.
How prophetic were Bainimarama’s words when he labeled Rabuka as a “Snake” on numerous occasions. Treachery remains the hallmark of this pathetic 19th century fossil.
Remember how he duped, hoodwinked and betrayed his voters when he went on a apology tour for his treasonous actions of 1987, claimed to have changed into a better person, campaigned on a platform of good governance and accountability, respect for human rights and rule of law and importantly, govern for all Fijians.
No sooner than he assumed power, he ceased calling the citizens of Fiji as “Fijians”. The Fijian government FB page immediately changed into “Fiji government”. Worse still, calling non-iTaukeis as “vulagis”. What followed was scandals, controversies, corruption, conspiracies, lawlessness and so forth.
Has anyone noticed that rarely any youth hold any top position in government or state institutions? It’s all jobs for the old boys. Even the prominent youth leaders who were the engine of The People’s Alliance campaign in the last 2022 elections were sidelined and discarded immediately post-elections.
Snake Rolex Rambo sees everything as a “game” which he must win at all costs – including at great expense to the people and the nation as a whole. He doesn’t have any vision of a progressive society, nation building, multiracialism, social cohesion, equality or elevating Fiji economically for that matter.
It’s all “us versus them” for him. His thoughts and ideology reflect a 19th century paradigm. And fulfilling the divisive, supremacist and unfinished agenda of 1987.
Never forget who made it all possible for Rolex Rabuka. It’s none other than his enabler Badia Baiman.
Never a day went by without this Bandar from Babasiga not praising Rabuka. He never stopped telling the world how much he respected and trusted Rabuka.
It was so repetitive that it became nauseating, pathetic and embarrassing.
This low life has no self respect or dignity.
He did all this self humiliation because he knew Rabuka would get him to power. Baiman will sink and demean himself to any level for votes.
Not once did he question Rabuka about some of his policies and actions. He continued to defend Rabuka.
He was more loyal to Rabuka than to his community or voters. A born traitor and gaddar.
Whatever one says about Rabuka at least he’s trying to help his people.
Not like coward, self serving Baiman who is only concerned about his own position, trips, making speeches and hobnobbing with elites. He is the lowest of the low.
This is the man which NFP has chosen as leader. Voters should bury both Baiman and NFP once and for all.
Great divider or great unifier?
All I hear on the streets is about how good it is that Muslims are no longer in positions of power and how us coconuts have to roll along in the one bunch.
No, CommonMan says Rabuka has been dividing the iTaukei since 1987. If that’s a more widespread view among the grassroots in the vanua, the next election isn’t the forgone conclusion Rabuka’s supporters think it is.
I agree with this sentiment
The visceral fear and resentment of the Indo Fijian is so great that as you say the coconuts will indeed roll together
Whose loss is it? Does anyone care for the country?
For what it’s worth, I hope the Turncoats and Uncle Tom NFP are decimated at the polls
Why not give Inia and his team chance?
You raise a pertinent point. What happens to the Indo-Fijians when the iTaukei unite under a single party? The truth is that pre-1987, the iTaukei were more multiracial in their political leanings than the NFP. While most Indo-Fijians votes NFP and later Labour between 1972 and 1987. The majority of the iTaukei voted Alliance, the only true multiracial, multicultural party in all of Fiji’s post-independence history.
1987 is a watershed moment because it marks a turning point in the voting proclivities of Fiji’s citizens, one where identity and not policy increasingly became a core issue in the way a vote was cast. So Rabuka not only divided the iTaukei, but he also made racial identity a fundamental theme in the next few decades of the country’s political landscape. So he has not just divided the iTaukei, he has turned the nation into ethnic enclaves.
NOTE TO READERS: Just to verify that this is genuinely CommonMan himself. His full article will be posted this evening.
CommonMan. The “multiracial” Itaukei from that pre-1987 era spawned the most radical racist of them all – to whit the Pedo President, the vakalbures, the tuisawaus, the mataitinis.
The question to be asked then is where they multiracial or, political opportunists who could not get an alliance ticket? Same thing with the Hindis who stood under alliance tickets in far flung areas which were itaukei strongholds with a smattering of Hindis.
I agree that the alliance was the most multicultural ( they united all the different iTaukei confederacies – cultures) but they were not the most multiracial by any means – that mantle rests with Labour, and then FFP.
There is a difference between multicultural and multiracial as I am sure GD will tell you.
You are entitled to your own opinions but not to your own facts. And the fact is that the Alliance Party won 25% of Indo-Fijian support in the 1972 General Elections, all three General Communal Seats in addition to all 12 seats in the iTaukei Communal seats and also captured all three cross voting national seats in the Western division which was the stronghold of NFP. The outright majority of NFP seats came from the Indo-Fijian Communal.
Meanwhile here’s the Alliance Cabinet lineup:
Prime Minister: Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara
Deputy Prime Minister: Ratu Sir Edward Cakobau
Minister for Finance: Charles Stinson
Minister for Communications, Works, and Tourism: Penaia Ganilau (appointed via the Senate)
Attorney General: John Falvey (appointed via the Senate)
Minister for Fijian Affairs: Ratu William Toganivalu
Minister for Urban Development, Housing, and Social Welfare: Vijay R. Singh
Minister for Labour: Jonati Mavoa
Minister for Health: James Shankar Singh.
It’s called a representative government.
Commonman should expose Conman Rolex Rambo, Conman Baimaan, and all conartists in this con govenmnt.
Upcoming change in Govt will be caused by all common people. Landslide victory coming for new Govt. Common people fed up with scandals, corruption, and this oversized and incompetent govt. Common People want to see real developments making headlines- not all the legal bungle jungle that we see everyday.
He has divided the narrow-minded, racist, ethno-nationalists that can only think from the “bubble of me” from everyone who is capable of rising higher to consider systems that work for everyone.
He has divided the Hitler and Trump type of brains in Fiji (they sure are wired up differently) from those capable of a forethought, the bigger picture and a sense of community.
The natural flow on effect is further division between these diminutive thinkers as they all push self-interest, and government and institutions descend into chaos as we are all witnessing.
We can’t expect any different when these dangerous divisive people are in powerful positions. We can only hope to sideline them as minority extremest groups and vote them out of power.
Snake Rolex Rambo has three main criteria when appointing individuals to top posts in the government: must hail from the provinces of Bua, Macuata and Cakaudrove, Old Boys network and military background.
How prophetic were Bainimarama’s words when he labeled Rabuka as a “Snake” on numerous occasions. Treachery remains the hallmark of this pathetic 19th century fossil.
Remember how he duped, hoodwinked and betrayed his voters when he went on a apology tour for his treasonous actions of 1987, claimed to have changed into a better person, campaigned on a platform of good governance and accountability, respect for human rights and rule of law and importantly, govern for all Fijians.
No sooner than he assumed power, he ceased calling the citizens of Fiji as “Fijians”. The Fijian government FB page immediately changed into “Fiji government”. Worse still, calling non-iTaukeis as “vulagis”. What followed was scandals, controversies, corruption, conspiracies, lawlessness and so forth.
Has anyone noticed that rarely any youth hold any top position in government or state institutions? It’s all jobs for the old boys. Even the prominent youth leaders who were the engine of The People’s Alliance campaign in the last 2022 elections were sidelined and discarded immediately post-elections.
Snake Rolex Rambo sees everything as a “game” which he must win at all costs – including at great expense to the people and the nation as a whole. He doesn’t have any vision of a progressive society, nation building, multiracialism, social cohesion, equality or elevating Fiji economically for that matter.
It’s all “us versus them” for him. His thoughts and ideology reflect a 19th century paradigm. And fulfilling the divisive, supremacist and unfinished agenda of 1987.
Never forget who made it all possible for Rolex Rabuka. It’s none other than his enabler Badia Baiman.
Never a day went by without this Bandar from Babasiga not praising Rabuka. He never stopped telling the world how much he respected and trusted Rabuka.
It was so repetitive that it became nauseating, pathetic and embarrassing.
This low life has no self respect or dignity.
He did all this self humiliation because he knew Rabuka would get him to power. Baiman will sink and demean himself to any level for votes.
Not once did he question Rabuka about some of his policies and actions. He continued to defend Rabuka.
He was more loyal to Rabuka than to his community or voters. A born traitor and gaddar.
Whatever one says about Rabuka at least he’s trying to help his people.
Not like coward, self serving Baiman who is only concerned about his own position, trips, making speeches and hobnobbing with elites. He is the lowest of the low.
This is the man which NFP has chosen as leader. Voters should bury both Baiman and NFP once and for all.