Māpuna for Saturday 22 November 2025

Eru Kapa-Kingi: 'emotionally turbulent' period for my whanau

Eru Kapa-Kingi, photographed on the Lower Treaty Grounds at Waitangi, February 2025. Photo: RNZ / Cole Eastham-Farrelly

This week academic Eru Kapa-Kingi was a keynote speaker at the World Indigenous Peoples' Conference on Education in Auckland. His mother is the Tai Tokerau MP Mariameno Kapa-Kingi, who was expelled from Te Pāti Māori last week along with Te Tai Tonga MP Takuta Ferris. Eru Kapa-Kingi says the episode has been 'emotionally turbulent' for his whanau but they've also received many messages of support.