Zimbabwe
- Land-based (reference)Regulated
- Regulator
- Lotteries and Gaming Board
- Headline tax
- Not yet verified
- Licence required
- Not yet verified
- Last verified
- 30 Aug 2026
Summary
Zimbabwe is regulated by the Lotteries and Gaming Board, based in Milton Park, Harare, which styles itself a world class gaming regulatory authority. It publishes an operators listing, a downloads library, numbered regulatory notices during the year and a client service charter. The charter is the detail worth noticing. The board publishes it in English, Ndebele, Tonga, Venda and Shona, which is a serious commitment to reaching players in the languages they actually use and is more than most regulators anywhere attempt. Alongside it the board runs a corporate social responsibility and community development programme, framed around strategic social investment rather than the harm-prevention framing a European regulator would lead with. This profile records the board and its published functions and leaves the substantive detail as honest gaps. Vertical status beyond the fact that it licenses operators, licence types, fees, tax treatment, advertising rules and compliance obligations have not yet been verified against primary sources. The position on remote gambling specifically is not asserted here, and readers should not infer it from the presence of a licensing board: across sub-Saharan Africa the mobile-led betting market has frequently grown faster than the statutory framework describing it, and the gap between the two is exactly what a jurisdiction profile needs to establish carefully rather than assume.
Key facts
- Regulator
- Lotteries and Gaming Board
- Regulator type
- Gaming board
- Headline tax
- Not yet verified
- Licence required
- Not yet verified
- Minimum age
- Not yet verified
- Tax base
- Not yet verified
Legal framework
Primary statutes
Lotteries and Gaming Act [Chapter 10:26]
- In force
- Yes
- Summary
- Cited as Chapter 10:26. The statute under which the Lotteries and Gaming Board licenses and supervises.
Advertising
- Advertising permitted
- Not yet verified
- Affiliate rules
- Affiliates are not separately licensed. Only operators holding a licence from the national regulator may lawfully be promoted.
- Penalties for breach
- The Lotteries and Gaming Board supervises licensees and can act against the licence.
Restrictions
- The Lotteries and Gaming Board licenses and supervises gambling, and only licensed operators may lawfully be promoted.
- Advertising is supervised as part of the licensing framework rather than under a separate advertising statute.
Sources
- Lotteries and Gaming Board
Government of Zimbabwe
Tier 1Accessed 27 Aug 2026 - Tier 2Accessed 29 Aug 2026