The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the current time, so you may think that there would be very little appetite for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In fact, it seems to be working the other way, with the atrocious market conditions creating a greater desire to bet, to attempt to locate a fast win, a way out of the crisis.
For many of the citizens subsisting on the tiny nearby money, there are 2 dominant types of betting, the state lottery and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else in the world, there is a national lottery where the chances of succeeding are extremely low, but then the jackpots are also remarkably big. It’s been said by market analysts who understand the subject that most don’t purchase a card with a real belief of profiting. Zimbet is centered on either the national or the English football leagues and involves determining the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other foot, pamper the extremely rich of the society and vacationers. Up until recently, there was a exceptionally substantial vacationing industry, built on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic collapse and connected conflict have cut into this market.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and one armed bandits, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has only slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only one armed bandits. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two of which have table games, one armed bandits and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the two of which offer video poker machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the previously alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a pools system), there are also 2 horse racing tracks in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the economy has contracted by beyond 40 percent in recent years and with the associated poverty and violence that has resulted, it is not understood how well the tourist business which supports Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the next few years. How many of the casinos will survive until things improve is simply not known.
July 8th, 2026
Cohen
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