Zimbabwe Casinos
Tuesday, 25. November 2025
The act of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the moment, so you might imagine that there would be very little affinity for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. In reality, it appears to be operating the other way around, with the awful economic circumstances leading to a larger desire to gamble, to attempt to discover a fast win, a way from the problems.
For most of the citizens surviving on the meager nearby wages, there are two established forms of betting, the state lottery and Zimbet. Just as with most everywhere else in the world, there is a state lottery where the odds of profiting are surprisingly small, but then the winnings are also very large. It’s been said by market analysts who study the situation that many do not purchase a ticket with an actual assumption of profiting. Zimbet is based on one of the domestic or the United Kingston football divisions and involves determining the outcomes of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other shoe, look after the considerably rich of the state and vacationers. Up until not long ago, there was a very substantial tourist industry, built on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The market collapse and connected violence have cut into this market.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree Casino, which has just the slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just one armed bandits. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which have gaming tables, 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 two of which have video poker machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the above alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting system), there are a total of 2 horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the economy has shrunk by beyond 40 percent in recent years and with the connected poverty and violence that has cropped up, it is not known how healthy the tourist industry which supports Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the next few years. How many of them will carry through until things improve is simply unknown.
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