E-Panui March 2009                                                                                   E-P# 19

Mana Magazine
March - April 2009 Issue 87

Tena ano koutou

In this action-packed issue we celebrate two broadcasting anniversaries.

We say ‘Hari Huritau’ to Maori Television as the channel celebrates five years of broadcasting. Mana Editor Derek Fox outlines the long battle to bring Maori TV to our screens, and, later in the magazine tells of the struggle to set up the Maori news programme Te Karere, on mainstream television 25 years ago.

Toku Reo is Maori Television’s brand-new Maori language learning series for beginners. The programme is based on the popular Te Whanake teaching resources - the brainchild of John Moorfield. Journalist Julie Middleton finds out how this Pakeha professor has become a leader in the teaching of Te Reo Maori.

 

 

Meet the Chief of our Air Force who has Ngai Tahu whakapapa and confesses that he always wanted to fly for Air New Zealand.

 

 

 

The curious case of Witi Ihimaera. Find out why this distinguished writer has turned back the clock and rewritten some of his most famous books and short stories.

 

 

 

Gout is often the stuff of jokes. But this painful form of arthritis is a hidden curse for Maori, particularly in South Auckland known as ‘the gout capital of the world’. There’s an action group there determined to ‘out gout’ so that it can be properly treated and prevented.

 

 

 

In Mana Kai popular TV chef Ann Thorpe introduces her new book and tells how breast cancer forced her to review her eating and cooking habits.

 

 

 

 

We preview two new exhibitions – Face Value and Plastic Maori and meet Kora – the band that is quite happy in the underground music scene.