The first haka groups are taking the atamira (stage) for the opening day of competition at Te Matatini 2025 - the national kapa haka championships, and the gates to New Plymouth's Bowl of Brooklands ...

Loreen Henare (centre) at one of the Pounamu Ventures performances. Loreen Henare had her first taste of kapa haka as a 4-year-old performing with her parents and whānau. Forty-eight years later ...

Te Kapa Haka o Ngāti Ranginui will represent Tauranga Moana at Te Matatini in New Plymouth this week. Video / Rosalie Liddle Crawford They are the only Tauranga Moana rōpū [group] selected to ...

Lehuauakea’s art installation, “Finding My Way Back Home,” features a large-scale, wall-mounted quilt of kapa, indigo, red dyes, ceramic beads, bells, rice bags, and secondhand Japanese cotton and ...

Thabo Mbeki has questioned the existence of the trial that led to Jacob Zuma’s imprisonment on Robben Island. Image: Anna Zieminski Source: Getty Images Briefly News journalist Byron Pillay has spent ...

Te Matatini began life in 1972 as the Polynesian Festival, at the inaugural festival in Rotorua seventeen kapa haka performed alongside six Polynesian groups representing Samoa, the Cook Islands and ...

A decomposed body of a male, believed to be Lesotho national and an illegal miner (zama zama), was retrieved from Zwartkrans Mine near Makapan's Valley in Mokopane, Limpopo. Provincial police ...

On 18 December 2024, President Cyril Ramaphosa decided to extend the registration period deadline for all Spaza Shops and other food handling outlets to 28 February 2025. In this regard and as from ...

The award-winning Inkabi Nation boss, Big Zulu is once again working on new music. He recently announced on social media that rapper Emtee is featured in the album, after having buried the hatchet and ...

The first sitting of the 7th Administration National Assembly in Cape Town wasn't without surprises as President Cyril Ramaphosa was re-elected as South Africa's first citizen in a surprising twist ...