Sunday August 31, 2025
News:
South Africa Rugby to apologise to Māori players excluded by apartheid
South Africa Rugby president Mark Alexander has revealed that plans are in place to welcome the Māori All Blacks next year, as well as formally apologise for historic exclusion during the country's apartheid era.
"We must also acknowledge that the injustice of apartheid extended beyond our borders. The Māori All Blacks-a team rich in heritage and pride-were denied the right to tour South Africa for decades, simply because they were not white. That exclusion was a stain on our history and it is long overdue that we confront it with humility and remorse," said Alexander this week, as reported by Cape Town-based journalist Mark Keohane....
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Last call for iwi reps on Taranaki environment watchdog
Would-be mana whenua representatives had until today to apply for a place on two key committees of Taranaki Regional Council.
The powerful Policy and Planning Committee steers the direction of the council, while the Consents and Regulatory Committee oversees the nitty-gritty of resource consents, compliance and pollution.
Both include three iwi representatives – from the north’s Tokomaru waka, Aotea waka in the south, and from Kurahaupō out west.
The representatives sit with regional councillors on the committees and every three years – as a new council is elected – the mana whenua positions are also open for change.....
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Articles:
John McLean: New Zealand is racist!
Graham Adams: By-election puts co-governance in spotlight
Matua Kahurangi: From newsreader to racist
Propaganda:
How are universities addressing barriers to higher education for rangatahi Māori?
Partnering indigenous knowledge with technology
Councils’ obligations to Māori
See full article HERE
Last call for iwi reps on Taranaki environment watchdog
Would-be mana whenua representatives had until today to apply for a place on two key committees of Taranaki Regional Council.
The powerful Policy and Planning Committee steers the direction of the council, while the Consents and Regulatory Committee oversees the nitty-gritty of resource consents, compliance and pollution.
Both include three iwi representatives – from the north’s Tokomaru waka, Aotea waka in the south, and from Kurahaupō out west.
The representatives sit with regional councillors on the committees and every three years – as a new council is elected – the mana whenua positions are also open for change.....
See full article HERE
Articles:
John McLean: New Zealand is racist!
Graham Adams: By-election puts co-governance in spotlight
Matua Kahurangi: From newsreader to racist
Propaganda:
How are universities addressing barriers to higher education for rangatahi Māori?
Partnering indigenous knowledge with technology
Councils’ obligations to Māori
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4 comments:
How ironic: South Africa is planning to apologise to maori rugby players for historic apartheid era exclusions, while here at home we have various maori cohorts and their activist friends intent on imposing apartheid throughout NZ.
If maori reps to Taranaki Regional Council require te reo then the likes of Turiana Turia would not qualify. Although given a maori dictionary it should not be hard to contrive long and complicated leg pull names as now seems to be one of the regular duties. Presumably reps receive allowances. As their task will involve primarily endless obstruction and probably never involve any original positive contribution no great effort or initiative will be required. Seems a job I and could do well but am not connected any insurgency group, another requirement.
Isn't it ironic that apartheid was despised for its race-based philosophy, yet in these "enlightened", post-apatheid times a team selected solely on the basis of race is welcomed
It’s weird. We thought the evil of apartheid had been vanquished. We thought we’d got the measure of inflation. We thought the vileness of antisemitism that led to the holocaust had been exposed and banished. We thought feminism had achieved most of its aims until the trans community came and put an ugly new face on misogyny. We thought tariffs and protectionism were last century trade policies. I’m well under 70 years old and watching all these nasties come back to take another bite at us. They say history repeats. I wasn’t expecting to see this much repetition within my lifetime. We just don’t seem to have learnt much from history at all.
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