The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the current time, so you may imagine that there would be little appetite for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In fact, it appears to be operating the other way, with the awful economic circumstances leading to a greater ambition to gamble, to attempt to find a quick win, a way out of the problems.
For most of the people living on the tiny nearby wages, there are 2 dominant types of gambling, the state lottery and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else on the globe, there is a national lottery where the probabilities of hitting are remarkably tiny, but then the winnings are also unbelievably large. It’s been said by economists who understand the concept that the lion’s share don’t purchase a ticket with the rational expectation of profiting. Zimbet is centered on either the national or the UK soccer leagues and involves determining the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other foot, cater to the exceedingly rich of the state and tourists. Up till a short time ago, there was a very large vacationing industry, built on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The market anxiety and associated crime have cut into this trade.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree gambling hall, 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 have table games, one armed bandits and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the pair of which offer slot machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the previously alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a parimutuel betting system), there are a total of 2 horse racing tracks in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the economy has shrunk by beyond 40 percent in recent years and with the connected poverty and bloodshed that has cropped up, it isn’t well-known how well the tourist business which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the in the years to come. How many of them will be alive till things get better is merely not known.
November 24th, 2025
Callie
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