The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the current time, so you could think that there would be very little appetite for patronizing Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. In reality, it appears to be working the other way, with the critical market conditions leading to a bigger desire to wager, to try and find a fast win, a way from the crisis.
For the majority of the locals subsisting on the tiny nearby money, there are two dominant styles of gambling, the state lotto and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else on the planet, there is a national lotto where the odds of profiting are remarkably low, but then the prizes are also extremely large. It’s been said by market analysts who study the subject that the lion’s share don’t purchase a card with an actual belief of hitting. Zimbet is based on either the domestic or the UK soccer divisions and involves predicting the outcomes of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other hand, mollycoddle the very rich of the state and sightseers. Until not long ago, there was a extremely big sightseeing business, centered on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic collapse and connected crime have carved into this market.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are 2 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 machine games. 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 pair of which offer gaming tables, slot machines and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, both of which has video poker machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the aforementioned alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting system), there are also two horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the market has diminished by beyond forty percent in recent years and with the connected poverty and crime that has arisen, it is not understood how well the vacationing business which funds Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the next few years. How many of the casinos will be alive until conditions get better is simply not known.
April 12th, 2026
Dayton
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