Moving Lesufi back to Education a slap in the face of minorities
31 May 2019
The decision made by Gauteng Premier, David Makhura, to move Panyaza Lesufi back to his previous portfolio as MEC for Education in the province is a slap in the face of minorities seeing as there is no doubt that he will continue his work of eradication of mother-tongue education and Afrikaans in particular.
Lesufi has not even tried to hide the fact that he has no regard for Afrikaans and that he wants to destroy Afrikaans schools. While serving as MEC, he ensured that numerous Afrikaans schools transformed to English and it is disturbing that Makhura apparently gave in to "public pressure" to restore the status quo as regards Lesufi.
Lesufi's record shows that he is not a competent MEC. He did not build enough schools even though he had the budget for it and now he will probably keep on intimidating Afrikaans schools so that they will transform to English.
The Driehoek tragedy serves as proof that he does not care about the maintenance of schools' infrastructure. His only interest in that school and the other schools that were recently inspected was to determine if the schools are full and if there is any space for additional learners who do not speak Afrikaans.