Zimbabwe Casinos
by Hudson on Thursday, November 27th, 2025
The act of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the moment, so you might imagine that there might be little affinity for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. In reality, it appears to be working the opposite way around, with the awful economic conditions creating a higher ambition to gamble, to try and discover a quick win, a way out of the difficulty.
For almost all of the people subsisting on the tiny nearby wages, there are two dominant styles of betting, the state lottery and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else on the globe, there is a national lotto where the chances of succeeding are unbelievably tiny, but then the prizes are also extremely high. It’s been said by economists who study the concept that the lion’s share don’t buy a ticket with a real assumption of hitting. Zimbet is built on either the local or the English soccer divisions and involves determining the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other hand, pander to the exceedingly rich of the nation and vacationers. Up until a short time ago, there was a very substantial vacationing industry, based on nature trips and trips to Victoria Falls. The market anxiety and associated conflict have cut into this market.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has only slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only one armed bandits. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which offer table games, one armed bandits and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the two of which have slot machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the aforementioned talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting system), there are also two horse racing complexes in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the economy has diminished by beyond forty percent in recent years and with the connected deprivation and crime that has cropped up, it is not well-known how healthy the tourist business which funds Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the next few years. How many of them will carry through until conditions improve is merely unknown.
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