Zimbabwe Casinos
July 5th, 2026 at 1:25
The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the moment, so you could envision that there would be very little affinity for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. In fact, it appears to be working the opposite way, with the desperate market conditions leading to a higher ambition to bet, to try and find a quick win, a way from the difficulty.
For nearly all of the people subsisting on the meager local money, there are 2 common forms of gambling, the state lottery and Zimbet. As with most everywhere else on the planet, there is a state lottery where the probabilities of profiting are surprisingly low, but then the winnings are also surprisingly big. It’s been said by economists who understand the concept that most don’t buy a ticket with a real assumption of hitting. Zimbet is centered on one of the domestic or the UK football divisions and involves predicting the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other foot, mollycoddle the considerably rich of the society and tourists. Until not long ago, there was a incredibly substantial vacationing business, centered on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic woes and connected violence have carved into this market.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree Casino, which has just the slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slots. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which contain gaming tables, slot machines and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, both of which have video poker machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the aforementioned mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a pools system), there are also 2 horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the economy has deflated by beyond 40% in recent years and with the associated poverty and crime that has cropped up, it isn’t well-known how well the sightseeing business which supports Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the in the years to come. How many of the casinos will survive until conditions improve is merely unknown.