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BY: Loop Author 09:11, December 20, 2020 12220 reads
The wife of Sir Mekere Morauta, Lady Roslyn, announced that her husband died peacefully in Brisbane, Australia, on Saturday 19 December.
She said funeral arrangements will be advised at a later date.
Sir Mekere was born in 1946, in Kukipi Village, Malalaua District, East Gulf, to Morauta Hasu and Morikoai Elavo. His father, Morauta Hasu, was a leader of the Toaripi people of East Gulf, a local government councillor and deacon of the London Missionary Society (later United Church). He was prominent in the Cooperative Movement for the Toaripi Association.
The late Sir Mekere was the first graduate in economics from the University of Papua New Guinea.