The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the moment, so you could imagine that there might be very little appetite for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. In fact, it seems to be functioning the other way, with the atrocious economic circumstances creating a larger desire to wager, to attempt to find a fast win, a way out of the crisis.
For the majority of the citizens surviving on the abysmal nearby earnings, there are two dominant forms of betting, the national lottery and Zimbet. Just as with most everywhere else in the world, there is a national lottery where the chances of profiting are extremely small, but then the prizes are also very big. It’s been said by economists who look at the subject that the majority don’t buy a card with a real belief of hitting. Zimbet is based on either the local or the British football divisions and involves determining the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other shoe, cater to the astonishingly rich of the society and vacationers. Until not long ago, there was a considerably large vacationing business, built on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The market collapse and connected crime have carved into this trade.
Among Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and one armed bandits, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has just the slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just one armed bandits. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two of which have table games, slots and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which has video poker machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the above mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a pools system), there are also 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 market has contracted by more than 40% in the past few years and with the associated deprivation and conflict that has cropped up, it is not well-known how healthy the vacationing industry which supports Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the next few years. How many of them will survive till conditions improve is merely not known.
