Facebook Youtube X-twitter Instagram Tiktok
2

Tagata Pasifika

The Pacific voice on
New Zealand television
since 1987
Facebook Youtube Twitter Instagram Tiktok

Tagata Pasifika

The Pacific voice on
New Zealand television
since 1987
tplus_logo
2

Tagata Pasifika

The Pacific voice on
New Zealand television
since 1987
Fono CEO Tevita Funaki. Photo: Tagata Pasifika

A quarter of Pasifika in NZ will have Type 2 diabetes in 20 years, new report predicts

Leave a Comment / Health & Lifestyle, News & Talanoa /

A quarter of all Pacific Islanders in New Zealand will be diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes in 20 years if nothing is done about it now to change things – that’s the prediction from a new report by PwC and Diabetes New Zealand. Fono CEO Tevita Funaki talks about his own experience with diabetes and what can be done.

#TALANOA

A quarter of Pasifika in NZ will have Type 2 diabetes in 20 years, new report predicts Read More »

Samoan model for HINE Collection

Rising activewear brand celebrates women of all shapes and sizes

Leave a Comment / Community /

Like many women on their fitness journey, Miriatetuara Flavell (better known as Miria), struggled to find good quality activewear that complemented her body shape and size. On social media, she would see activewear brands only catering to women of smaller figures. “I thought it was unfair that so many women who want to get into

Rising activewear brand celebrates women of all shapes and sizes Read More »

This week Polynesian pop group The Jets laid their family patriarch, Maikeli Wolfgramm, to rest

Grammy nominated pop group The Jets farewell family patriarch this week

Leave a Comment / Entertainment /

This week Polynesian pop group The Jets laid their family patriarch, Maikeli “Mike” Wolfgramm, to rest. The Jets Facebook page released a touching obituary to their father, detailing his life as a “son, brother, uncle, husband, father, grandfather, and friend”. “As a resilient pioneer in the entertainment industry, his vision and faith to pursue the

Grammy nominated pop group The Jets farewell family patriarch this week Read More »

Pacific vaccine rollout

Government gives funding boost to Pacific health providers to vaccinate

Leave a Comment / News & Talanoa /

The Government is providing a funding boost to Pacific health providers to assist them with the delivery of the Government’s COVID-19 vaccination campaign in Pacific communities. “Our Pacific providers know and can reach our communities best. They will have access to vaccines on a rolling basis. This will enable them to vaccinate as many people

Government gives funding boost to Pacific health providers to vaccinate Read More »

Savea brothers samoan language

Savea brothers embarking on Samoan language journey to build cultural connection

Leave a Comment / Sport /

This article was first published in March 2021 Julian Savea has revealed he and brother Ardie are learning to speak Samoan ahead of this weekend’s Mana Moana themed round of Super Rugby Aotearoa. By Finlay Dunseath and Joe Porter for rnz.co.nz Returning to the Hurricanes set-up this year after spending a three year spell with Toulon

Savea brothers embarking on Samoan language journey to build cultural connection Read More »

All Blacks and Blues prop Ofa Tuungafasi

Major signing as Tuungafasi extends time with Blues and NZR until 2024

Leave a Comment / News & Talanoa, Sport /

All Blacks and Blues prop Ofa Tuungafasi has signed a new contract with New Zealand Rugby (NZR) and his Blues club. In what is a major re-signing, Tuungafasi will stay in New Zealand until 2024, which makes him the first All Black to reconfirm his allegiance to New Zealand beyond the 2023 Rugby World Cup. The

Major signing as Tuungafasi extends time with Blues and NZR until 2024 Read More »

Pauline Vaeluaga Smith's exhibition remembering NZ's dark history

Dawn raids exhibition remembering New Zealand’s dark history

Leave a Comment / Arts & Music /

With Pacific Islanders bearing much of the blame for New Zealand’s economic downturn in the 1970s, the government-sanctioned dawn raids were put into effect, with police and immigration officials terrorising Pacific families suspected of overstaying.

Author Pauline Vaeluaga Smith looks to educate people about this history through her book and exhibition ‘Dawn Raid – Educate to Liberate’. The exhibition is currently being shown as part of the Auckland Arts Festival.

Dawn raids exhibition remembering New Zealand’s dark history Read More »

Diabetes in the Pacific

Covid-19 urgency needed to address an “avalanche of diabetes” amongst the Pacific community

Leave a Comment / News & Talanoa /

A senior Pacific doctor says that the enthusiasm the New Zealand government has shown to combat the Covid-19 pandemic is also needed to fight the current diabetes crisis. Pasifika Medical Association (PMA) member and public health physician, Dr Corina Grey, says there has been an “avalanche of diabetes” amongst the Pacific and Māori communities. PMA

Covid-19 urgency needed to address an “avalanche of diabetes” amongst the Pacific community Read More »

Yuki Kihara at her exhibition A Song About Samoa at Pataka Art Museum

Yuki Kihara: First Pacific artist to represent NZ at ‘Olympics of the art world’

Leave a Comment / Arts & Music /

Samoan-Japanese artist Yuki Kihara hit headlines last year when she was named New Zealand’s representative at the next Venice Biennale – regarded as the Olympics of the art world.

Reporter Johnson Raela caught up with Kihara at her solo exhibition at Pātaka Art Museum in Porirua last month, which brought together Samoan siapo and Japanese kimono.

Yuki Kihara: First Pacific artist to represent NZ at ‘Olympics of the art world’ Read More »

The home of Tagata Pasifika the Pacific voice on New Zealand television since 1987. 

Facebook-f Youtube X-twitter Instagram Tiktok

Information

Categories

Newsletter

Want to be the first to know when new videos are available? Subscribe to our weekly email newsletter. No spam!

© Copyright All rights reserved.