Zimbabwe Casinos
Sunday, 13. September 2026
The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the moment, so you may imagine that there would be little desire for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. Actually, it seems to be working the opposite way around, with the desperate market conditions creating a higher ambition to play, to try and find a fast win, a way from the crisis.
For many of the locals surviving on the tiny local money, there are 2 common types of gaming, the national lottery and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else in the world, there is a state lottery where the chances of winning are remarkably small, but then the jackpots are also extremely high. It’s been said by economists who look at the subject that many do not purchase a card with an actual belief of profiting. Zimbet is based on one of the local or the British football leagues and involves determining the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other hand, pander to the considerably rich of the society and sightseers. Up till not long ago, there was a incredibly big sightseeing business, based on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic collapse and associated conflict have cut into this market.
Among 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 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 offer gaming tables, slots and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which offer slot machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the above alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a pools system), there is a total of two horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the economy has contracted by beyond 40 percent in the past few years and with the connected poverty and crime that has cropped up, it isn’t known how healthy the sightseeing industry which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the next few years. How many of the casinos will still be around until things get better is simply unknown.
Posted in Casino by Amelie