Zimbabwe gambling dens
Monday, 22. December 2025
The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the current time, so you could think that there might be very little appetite for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. In reality, it appears to be operating the other way, with the crucial market circumstances leading to a greater eagerness to gamble, to attempt to locate a fast win, a way from the difficulty.
For most of the locals living on the abysmal local money, there are 2 dominant styles of gambling, the state lottery and Zimbet. Just as with practically everywhere else in the world, there is a national lotto where the probabilities of hitting are unbelievably small, but then the prizes are also unbelievably large. It’s been said by economists who study the situation that most don’t buy a ticket with a real belief of winning. Zimbet is based on either the local or the UK soccer leagues and involves determining the outcomes of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other hand, pander to the considerably rich of the nation and tourists. Up until a short while ago, there was a exceptionally big sightseeing industry, built on nature trips and trips to Victoria Falls. The market woes and connected crime 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 five gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has only slot machines. 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, both of which have gaming tables, slot machines and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the pair of which offer slot machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the aforestated alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a pools system), there is a total of 2 horse racing tracks in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the economy has contracted by more than 40% in the past few years and with the connected poverty and violence that has arisen, it is not known how well the sightseeing business which supports Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the near future. How many of them will still be around until conditions get better is simply unknown.
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