IVA TORA
20 April, 2021, 9:42 pm
Mr Ramrakha was among the last remaining stalwarts of the National Federation Party from Fiji’s early post-independence era. Picture: SUPPLIED
Kamram Chand Ramrakha, prominent lawyer and a contemporary of leading political lights, Siddiq Koya and Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, died at Sydney’s Mater hospital on April 17, following a long illness.
Mr Ramrakha was among the last remaining stalwarts of the National Federation Party from Fiji’s early post-independence era.
Erudite and eccentric, he was an engaging raconteur whom I affectionately knew, by turns, as Uncle or KC. He was 88 when he passed on, mind still as sharp, like cut glass, a firm twinkle in his eye and spirits as buoyant as ever, right to the very end. KC was born March 18 1933 in Nabouwalu in Bua to Odin Ramrakha, a senior public servant in the colonial judiciary and his wife Mohandai.