# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/andrek-panyaza-lesufi
# Generated: 2026-08-16T05:26:29.706Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/andrek-panyaza-lesufi"
name: "Andrek Panyaza Lesufi"
slug: "andrek-panyaza-lesufi"
description: "Andrek \"Panyaza\" Lesufi is a South African politician who was appointed the seventh Premier of Gauteng in October 2022. He was previously Member of the Executive Council (MEC) for Education in the Gauteng provincial government between May 2014 and October 2022, with the exception of a two-day stint as MEC for Finance in May 2019. Simultaneously, he was acting MEC for Social Development between November 2019 and June 2020."
tagline: "Premier of Gauteng, South Africa"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Andrek_%22Panyaza%22_Lesufi.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1968-09-04"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.49
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.243164
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/PanyazaLesufi"
    handle:    "PanyazaLesufi"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://panyazalesufi.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panyaza_Lesufi"
    title: "Panyaza Lesufi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panyaza_Lesufi"
    title: "Panyaza Lesufi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ss.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panyaza_Lesufi"
    title: "Panyaza Lesufi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%D9%86%DB%8C%D8%A7%D8%B2%DB%81_%D9%84%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%81%DB%8C"
    title: "پنیازہ لوسوفی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://xh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panyaza_Lesufi"
    title: "Panyaza Lesufi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q64516451"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump