2 Sep 2024

Discussions to be held tomorrow on who will suceed Kiingi

From Checkpoint, 5:30 pm on 2 September 2024

The King's Council will meet with iwi leaders in private tomorrow to discuss who will succeed Kiingi Tuheitia after the Maori monarch's death last week. At least 13 iwi groups and over 8 thousand people arrived at Tuurangawaewae on a misty Waikato morning today to pay tribute. As Tuwhenuaroa Natanahira reports, it has been a day of binding and reaffirming the ties of whakapapa that connect iwi across the motu to the Kiingitanga.