July 28, 2016
Homeless fears voiced on kapa stage
This week’s national secondary schools’ kapa haka competitions in Hawke’s Bay have shown that rangatahi are deeply concerned with politics and social issues.
Maori Party co-leader Marama Fox says she wishes more of her political colleagues understood te reo Maori so they could appreciate the korero coming from the stage abiout issues affecting their whanau, like homelessness and poverty.
"These young people are growing up in that environment and they are speaking loudly about it over the kapa haka stage and they are saying enough is enough, you need to hear the real harm and hurt and pain that our people are going through and do something about it now," she says.
The biggest cheers of the day at the Pettigrew Green Arena in Taradale came for Rangitikei based Hato Paora Boys College which used both the long and short poi to criticise the organising committee’s attempt to bar boys’ schools from doing poi items.
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