The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the moment, so you might envision that there would be little appetite for patronizing Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In fact, it appears to be working the other way, with the critical economic circumstances creating a bigger desire to wager, to try and discover a quick win, a way out of the difficulty.
For nearly all of the locals living on the abysmal nearby wages, there are two popular forms of betting, the national lottery and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else on the globe, there is a national lotto where the chances of hitting are remarkably small, but then the winnings are also surprisingly big. It’s been said by economists who understand the situation that many do not buy a card with the rational belief of profiting. Zimbet is founded on either the national or the United Kingston football divisions and involves predicting the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other shoe, cater to the incredibly rich of the country and sightseers. Until a short while ago, there was a very big tourist industry, based on nature trips and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic woes and associated conflict have cut into this trade.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree Casino, which has only slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slots. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which offer table games, slot machines and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the pair of which offer video poker machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the above alluded to 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 second municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the market has shrunk by beyond 40 percent in the past few years and with the connected poverty and crime that has cropped up, it isn’t understood how well the tourist industry which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the in the years to come. How many of them will survive until conditions get better is merely not known.
September 20th, 2026
Mohammed
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