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Ratu Sir George Kadavulevu Cakobau GCMG GCVO KStJ OBE (6 November 1912 – 25 November 1989) was a Fijian statesman and athlete.A great-grandson of Ratu Seru Epenisa Cakobau, the paramount chief of Bau who had unified all the tribes of Fiji under his reign in the mid-1800s, Ratu Sir George held the traditional titles of Vunivalu of Bau and Tui Levuka and thus was considered by many as Fiji's ...
Ratu George Kadavulevu Cakobau Jr., also known as Ratu Joji (14 April 1948 – 25 June 2018), was a Fijian chief and senator. He was the eldest son of the late Governor-General and 12th Vunivalu of Bau (widely considered to be Fiji's most paramount chiefly position) Ratu Sir George Cakobau, [1] through his first wife Adi Veniana Gavoka, and was a great-great-grandson of King Seru Epenisa ...
Ratu Sir George Cakobau (1912–1989) 13 January 1973 12 February 1983 10 years, 30 days 3 Ratu Sir Penaia Ganilau (1918–1993) 12 February 1983 6 October 1987
George Cakobau: Alliance Party: Cakobau was appointed Governor-General in 1973. Penaia Ganilau won the resulting by-election Lau-Cakaudrove: Kamisese Mara: Alliance Party: North-Central: Josua Toganivalu: Alliance Party: North-Eastern: Sakiasi Waqanivavalagi: Alliance Party: North-Western: Apisai Tora: National Federation Party: South-Central ...
Instead, the Governor-General, Ratu Sir George Cakobau, called on Mara to form a caretaker government, pending new elections scheduled for September. The events that led to his decision, and his reasons for it, are still mired in controversy, with different parties involved telling different versions of the situation, and conspiracy theories ...
Descendants of Seru Epenisa Cakobau Cakobau was the Fijian monarch who unified the nation in 1871, and ceded it to Britain in 1874. Many twentieth-century politicians are direct descendants of his. Great-grandchildren: Ratu Sir Edward Cakobau - Military commander, Deputy Prime Minister (1970s). Ratu Sir George Cakobau - Governor-General of Fiji ...
Note that Cakobau had been the Vunivalu (Warlord/Paramount Chief) of Bau since 1852. He had long styled himself the Tui Viti (King of Fiji), but had not been recognised as such by other chiefs, and he exercised no direct authority outside his domain of Bau until he united the country under his leadership in 1871. His ancestors, going back as ...
The Paramount Chief of Kubuna, who is generally considered to be the highest-ranked chief in Fiji, is the 'Turaga Bale Na Tui Kaba', Vunivalu of Bau.A position that has been vacant since the death of Ratu Sir George Cakobau, a former Governor General, in 1989.