Cutting–Edge Current Affairs On Maori TV

Cutting–Edge Current Affairs On Maori Television

Maori Television’s current affairs show NATIVE AFFAIRS has secured an exclusive and extended interview with Delwyn Keefe, the partner of Jan Molenaar, who earlier this year went on a deadly shooting rampage, before he was found dead in his house.

Keefe talks exclusively to reporter Carmen Parahi about her relationship with Molenaar, the last days of the Napier siege, and her life since, in NATIVE AFFAIRS on Monday June 29 at 8.00 PM (replay on Friday July 3 at 10.00 PM).

In the interview, Keefe reveals she was the last person to speak to Jan Molenaar, and that she begged him to give himself up.

“I said to him, ‘Jan give yourself up’, he says ‘but I can’t, I’ve gone too far’, and then he mentioned something about prison and I said, ‘don’t worry about that, I’ll stand beside you because you and I have always battled it out together’, me and him.”

She also shows reporter Carmen Parahi around the house at the centre of the Napier siege, and reveals the stress she’s under, coping with what Jan did, and trying to rebuild her life.

“I said to Mum the other night, I had a cry, I said to her 'I find it too hard to cope. I can't handle one more thing, I can't.' I can't."

As well as this interview, this week’s programme features a range of stories from Aotearoa-New Zealand and abroad.

Coming up: the team updates the latest developments on the Central North Island Treaty settlement, and asks whether serious Maori criminals should be afforded the privilege of a full tangi.

The international story this week is a report about the competition between Australia and China for gold in Antarctica.

NATIVE AFFAIRS is now in its third season, and was nominated in 2007’s Qantas Television Awards for best current affairs show.

Covering regional and national current affairs from a Maori perspective as well as international indigenous news, the show is led by a highly experienced team of producers that includes executive producer Colin McRae, producer Sharon Hawke and associate producer Wena Harawira.

For educational, informed and serious current affairs, tune in to NATIVE AFFAIRS on Maori Television every Monday at 8.00 PM, replayed on Friday at 10.00 PM.

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