Lucas Ledwaba
Unless a miracle of Biblical proportions happens between this evening and tomorrow when the IEC completes the testing task of counting votes, indications are that Parliament’s erstwhile servant, Themba Godi, may join the long list of the country’s jobless.
Godi has been the Chairperson for the Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA) since February 2005.
He has been a Member of Parliament since 2004 and served in numerous capacities including in the Portfolio Committees on Trade and Industry, Labour, Social Development, and Education. But the position of SCOPA chair has become synonymous with the man from Bushbuckridge.
However, results coming in from Wednesday’s poll signal the end of Godi’s parliamentary career. His African People’s Convention (APC) had scored a paltry 15,630 votes by Friday early afternoon.
It would require a miracle for the APC, one of numerous breakaways from the PAC of Azania, to reach the 37,000-vote threshold
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