Geopolitical storymaking about Tonga and Fiji: How media fooled people to believe Ma'afu wanted Lau
Journal: Te Kaharoa
Year: 2014

Just when Tongan Democratic Party leader ‘Akilisi Pohiva stumped the public by saying he admired Fiji’s Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama because “he has been able to make things happen and take development to the people,” the Government of Tonga’s Minister for Lands, Lord Ma’afu, came right out of the blue and trumped him (Tonga Daily News, 2014a, 2014b). Ma’afu topped Pohiva at causing public bamboozlement.&#x0D; By this, Pohiva was the progenitor of Tonga’s thirty year old pro-democracy moveme