Zimbabwe Casinos
September 25th, 2026 at 15:25
The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the current time, so you could envision that there might be very little appetite for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. In fact, it seems to be operating the other way, with the awful market circumstances leading to a larger eagerness to bet, to attempt to discover a fast win, a way from the crisis.
For nearly all of the locals living on the abysmal local earnings, there are two established forms of gambling, the state lottery and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else in the world, there is a national lottery where the probabilities of profiting are extremely small, but then the jackpots are also remarkably big. It’s been said by economists who study the situation that many do not buy a card with an actual expectation of hitting. Zimbet is founded on one of the local or the UK football divisions and involves predicting the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other shoe, cater to the incredibly rich of the society and vacationers. Up till not long ago, there was a incredibly big vacationing industry, based on nature trips and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic woes and connected violence have cut into this market.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and one armed bandits, and the Plumtree Casino, which has only slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just one armed bandits. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two of which offer table games, slots and video machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the pair of which offer gaming machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the aforementioned mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a parimutuel betting system), there are also two horse racing tracks in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the market has shrunk by more than 40% in recent years and with the connected poverty and violence that has come to pass, it isn’t well-known how well the sightseeing business which supports Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the next few years. How many of them will carry through till conditions improve is simply unknown.