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Sovereign state
Africa
ISO ZW

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

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

  1. Lotteries and Gaming Board

    Government of Zimbabwe

    Tier 1Accessed 27 Aug 2026
  2. Tier 2Accessed 29 Aug 2026

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