Last hurrah

Mrs Devoy’s ‘last hurrah’ spiel started off with “sharing peoples (Real NZ) stories of racial prejudice (leads to tolerance) and is at the heart of our anti-racism work,” then morphs off into left field for NZ Relations Day, March 21, about Soweto, Sharpsville and Anne Frank.

Let’s look at South Africa. Kiwis never supported apartheid and strongly protested against it. Certainly no Kiwis supported the Nazis’ Jewish atrocities, which is one of the reasons why we went to war. Clearly the Human Rights Commission ‘think tank’, with its 50-plus staff, is back in the grove after the New Year break, conjuring up ways to justify their very existence.

Perhaps it is worth recalling that under ANC, South Africa has become a society that is breaking down. All ordinary citizens, apart from acquiring so-called ‘political freedom’ (a mirage), are far worse off under the current regime than they ever were previously. There were better fed, better housed, better paid, better educated,

had better health care and were safer. Once Mandela had it gone it became a very sorry state of affairs.

Interestingly for Kiwis, the South African Parliament controlled by ANC has recently passed legislation to confiscate white farmers’ land, without compensation, and now seek to change the constitution. The president of this basket case economy says the time for peace and reconciliation is over, and stolen land will be reclaimed.

Hold on. Haven’t some of these farming families been there since the late 1600s, when the only black people originally there were the Kalihari bushmen (Khoisan) with the Bantu (Zulu, Xhosa and Tswana) black migrations south coming much later? The ANC people who promote/endorse murder and violence to achieve their ends are full of BS.

In my view, the ill-informed Race Relations Office, which prefers fiction over the facts and the truth, by its actions and preconceived mindsets creates racial tensions by actively supporting raced-based treatyist and separatist initiatives in this country. Frankly, it is about time we were rid of this lot.

Mrs Devoy was appointed Race Relations Commissioner on April 1, 2013 (aptly April Fool’s day) for a term of five years, expiring last week, thank heavens. No doubt however, some PC, leftist pointy head will try and extend that term. MP Chris Hipkins is wanting to spend $220,000 just to change the formerly New Zealand Teachers’ Council to the Teaching Council of Aotearoa.

Nu Tirani appears eight times in the Treaty of Waitangi as Maori never used the word Aotearoa. It was not a Maori name for New Zealand. In modern times Aotearoa has been used for New Zealand.

If George Gray used it once or twice it is of no significance. Going back in time, when it was never used like around 1120AD, when a banished people from Scotland arrived, this was called Far Land.

Abel Tasman (1642) named it Staten Landt, amongst other names. Te Ira o Maui, Aotea, Whai Repo and Orokeroke were names for the North Island, with Te Wai Pournanamu, Te Waka a Aoraki and Kaikalda for the South Island, Nukuroa was also used.

Aotearoa was the name of the South Island in the middle century. Maori began to favour, Nu Tirani which is what is called in the treaty and in official documents in Maori.

In 1325 Kupe’s wife said E Kupe he Aotea.

To use the word Aotearoa in the name of our country is another falsity. It does not appear in the Treaty and was never used at the time. According to the Waitaha and Moriori people New Zealand was only called Aotea, not Aotearoa.

Aotearoa is inconsistent and must be unacceptable. It betrays the history and origins of New Zealand and should be rigorously eliminated. Our country has been New Zealand for about 370 years.