I’d heard about divide & conquer as a strategy. Imagine however my surprise to experience it myself. Surprised because … if I remember correctly … I was the only one who turned up to the last Māori land court hearing, I was there when the judge ordered my succession to whenua left in part to me, in a will. So why then, would the next step be to approach siblings to agree to go against me in exchange for financial benefits. To put pressure on me to agree to sell. Credit to my siblings who staunchly declined the invite.