Now 82 years old, former MP Dover Samuels speaks out about the brutality he suffered as a child when he spoke Māori at school in the 1940s. In 2015 he made a claim to the Waitangi Tribunal for a formal apology from Government to acknowledge the mamae for children of being beaten for speaking te reo at native schools. This story first aired on 27/09/2021
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