Mnangagwa Donates Boreholes in Zambia
…sends Presidential Investment and Empowerment Advisor, Tempter Paul Tungwarara to Lusaka….
The Village Business Unit (VBU) programme, a flagship rural development and agricultural policy launched by Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa is coming to Lusaka.
Under the Presidential Borehole Drilling Programme, each unit is equipped with a solar-powered borehole, water storage tanks, and drip irrigation systems.
Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa has sent a gift to the people of Zambia: ten Village Business Units, carried to Lusaka by his Presidential Investment and Empowerment Advisor, Dr T. P. Tungwarara.
Each unit gives a village a drilled borehole for reliable water, a one-hectare garden fitted with drip irrigation, and a community-owned business where villagers farm together and share what the land earns. President Hakainde Hichilema will choose the villages that benefit, in consultation with the relevant Zambian authorities.
The model has been running in Zimbabwe since 2022 under the Presidential Borehole Drilling Scheme, bringing water, food and income to rural families. Zimbabwe’s technical team, which built the programme at home, stands ready to start work in Zambia.
Dr Tungwarara says the visit goes both ways. He has come to share what Zimbabwe has learned in its villages and to learn from Zambia, whose farmers delivered an exceptional harvest in 2025.
“Zambia and Zimbabwe drink from the same Zambezi. When a village in Zambia has water and a working garden, Zimbabwe celebrates too. President Mnangagwa asked me to bring this gift as a brother, and to say that we stand fully behind President Hichilema’s leadership and his Grow Zambia Agenda,” said Dr Tungwarara.
The gift also carries regional weight. President Mnangagwa chairs COMESA, whose Secretariat is based here in Lusaka, and has made practical village development a priority across the bloc.