21 March 2012
Department of Information and Publicity
MDC99 Communique on David Coltart Alleged Tender Scandal
It is astonishing and disturbing to note that Hon David Coltart is being accused of having been involved in a Tender scandal on flimsy allegations based on partisan politics from ZANU (PF) and MDC-T. Without suggesting that Hon Coltart is innocent but we are concerned at the content of allegations clearly classified as ‘corruption’ based on the Tender not having been offered to a local company.
All is open for everyone to see that Hon David Coltart has so far done an extremely tremendous job within the Ministry of Education and Culture whereupon now all children in Zimbabwe are going to school and have text books while emerging from a real collapse of the education system in the country. Sadly and ironically the collapse of government structures in Zimbabwe was caused by Dorothy Mangani’s political party and sustained now by Fidelis Mhashu’s party under the inclusive government. Fidelis’s dismal performance in government was glaring for all to see until he was fired from Cabinet by Morgan Tsvangirai.
As a party we uphold the values of good governance and performance irrespective of political affiliations in line with our founding principles which have, unfortunately, been forgotten by MDC-Tsvangirai and Ncube under the tutorship of ZANU (PF) leadership style. We want to celebrate and promote good service delivery to the people of Zimbabwe who we serve in our struggle for political emancipation.
Zimbabweans have struggled for a long time and any form of party politics extents oppression, discrimination, brutality and suffering among the people of Zimbabwe. Our democratic principles promote multi- party democracy which allows freedom of association and speech. And under the circumstance we accommodate the promotion of good performance by members of other parties.
We therefore trust that Hon David Coltart will clear his name on the said allegations and continue to deliver service to the people of Zimbabwe.