Panyaza Lesufi did so well as Gauteng education MEC that there was an outcry when he was shifted from the portfolio and made finance MEC in a cabinet reshuffle. In next to no time he was back in the saddle as education head honcho by popular demand.

However, lest we forget, Lesufi is also a politician. Now, that species is known for overly blowing their own trumpet and making grandiose promises often matched only by their sheer incompetence when required to fulfill the pledges they made to "the masses of our people". ..