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Tuesday 23 February 2010
Auckland, New Zealand
Tonga quietly buried one of her most influential scholars and visionaries when they laid Ilaiasi Futa –ki- Ha'angana Helu to rest at Telekava cemetary in Nuku'alofa this week. Quietly, that is, for someone who has had a prominent role in shaping Tongan society over the last half-century.
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Sunday 7 December 2008
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Dr S. Langi Kavaliku (69), Tonga's most outstanding scholar, a former Prime Minister, a former Cabinet member for 33 years, and newly appointed alternate chairman of Tonga's Political Reform Commission died in an accident at about 8 am on Wednesday, December 3, when his vehicle hit a mound of rocks that was left in the middle of a country road.
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