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Mohammad Apisai Vuniyayawa Tora (January 5, 1934 – August 6, 2020) was a Fijian politician, soldier, and trade unionist. As a labour leader, he was a fighter for dock workers. As a soldier, he served in Malaya and later served as President of the Ex-Servicemen's League.
Tora held a variety of political positions, the last being as a Senator from 2001 to 2006. A convert to Islam, he represented a small minority (numbered in the hundreds) in both the indigenous Fijian and Muslim communities, the great majority of Muslims being Indo-Fijian. On 27 September 2005, he was sentenced to eight months' imprisonment for offenses related to the Fiji coup of 2000.
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respectively as their opponents. The Western Democratic Party nominated ApisaiTora and Isikeli Nadalo, both for the Western Fijian Constituency. Isikei...
speeches and interviews in the last week of August. He condemned Senator ApisaiTora for saying that indigenous Fijians would not accept a non-indigenous...
for Co-operatives Livai Nasilivata Minister of State for Forests Josaia Tavaiqia Minister without Portfolio ApisaiTora Source: Pacific Islands Monthly...
Member of the House of Representatives In office 1977–1982 Succeeded by ApisaiTora Constituency Ba–Nadi Fijian Communal Personal details Died 17 November...
– South West Viti Levu Peniame Naqasima Alliance Party 5,600 Elected ApisaiTora National Democratic Party 2,632 Invalid votes 133 – Tailevu William Brown...
Democratic Alliance won 3 seats (2 ethnic Fijian and one open), while ApisaiTora's Party of National Unity won four ethnic Fijian seats. The United General...
Party to contest the 1963 election. He had then merged his party with ApisaiTora's Western Democratic Party to form the National Democratic Party, which...
the President and Vice-President, respectively, of the merged party. ApisaiTora and Isikeli Nadalo, both indigenous Fijians, were leading figures in...
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