Geoff Doidge
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Geoffrey Quinton Michael Doidge (born 26 April 1954) is a South Africa
South Africa
The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...

n politician and, as of 25 September 2008, is the country's Minister of Public Works.

Career in politics

He was Deputy Chief Whip of the African National Congress
African National Congress
The African National Congress is South Africa's governing Africanist political party, supported by its tripartite alliance with the Congress of South African Trade Unions and the South African Communist Party , since the establishment of non-racial democracy in April 1994. It defines itself as a...

 (ANC).

In January 2001 he was appointed by the ANC in the place of Andrew Feinstein
Andrew Feinstein
Andrew Josef Feinstein is a former South African politician who currently resides in the United Kingdom, but remains a South African citizen.-Personal life:He was born in Cape Town to Ralph Josef Feinstein and Erika Hemmer...

, as chair of its study group on public accounts and ANC's official spokesman on the National Assembly
National Assembly of South Africa
The National Assembly is the lower house of the Parliament of South Africa, located in Cape Town, Western Cape Province. It consists of no fewer than 350 and no more than 400 members...

's public accounts committee.
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