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We need to try and focus less on ethnicity in this country and concentrate on trying to improve the lot of the marginalized whoever they are.
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Speech to the Lautoka Rotary Club (Centenary Dinner), 12 March 2005

 

Ratu Joni Madraiwiwi

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