The act of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the current time, so you could think that there might be little desire for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. Actually, it appears to be operating the other way around, with the awful economic circumstances creating a greater ambition to wager, to try and locate a quick win, a way out of the difficulty.
For many of the people subsisting on the tiny nearby money, there are two popular forms of betting, the state lotto and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else on the globe, there is a state lotto where the probabilities of hitting are unbelievably low, but then the jackpots are also remarkably big. It’s been said by financial experts who understand the concept that many do not purchase a ticket with the rational expectation of hitting. Zimbet is built on one of the local or the English soccer divisions and involves predicting the outcomes of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other shoe, look after the very rich of the nation and tourists. Up until a short while ago, there was a extremely substantial vacationing industry, founded on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The market collapse and connected violence have carved 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 one armed bandits, and the Plumtree Casino, which has just the slots. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slot machines. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two of which contain table games, slot machines and video machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the two of which have gaming machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the above mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting system), there are a total of two horse racing tracks in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the market has shrunk by more than 40 percent in the past few years and with the associated deprivation and conflict that has come about, it is not known how healthy the vacationing business which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the next few years. How many of them will be alive until things get better is simply unknown.
January 13th, 2026
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