Burebasaga Confederacy
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Burebasaga is the largest of the three confederacies that comprise Fiji's House of Chiefs, to which all Fijian chiefs belong. It consists of the provinces of Rewa Province, Nadroga, Serua, Kadavu Island off the coast of Suva, and parts of Ba and Ra. Burebusaga covers the southern and western parts of the island of Viti Levu. The Western Division and the southern part of the Central Division.
Lomanikoro, in Rewa Province, is the capital of this confederacy.
The Roko Tui Dreketi is the Paramount Chief of the Burebasaga Confederacy. Unlike the Kubuna and Tovata confederacies, Burebasaga does not require its paramount chief to be a male. The present Roko Tui Dreketi is Ro Teimumu Vuikaba Kepa, who succeeded her late sister, Ro Lady Lala Mara, a former First Lady of Fiji, in 2004. Kepa was also Minister of Education in the Fijian Cabinet from 2000 to 2006.
Another prominent Burebasaga chief is the Tui Vuda, Ratu Josefa Iloilo, who was the President of Fiji from 2000 to 2006, when he was deposed in a military coup. Former Prime Minister Ratu Tevita Momoedonu is also a Burebasaga chief.
Sources: Maori News (Fiji Supplement); Roko Tui Dreketi
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