The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the current time, so you may envision that there might be very little desire for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. Actually, it appears to be working the other way around, with the crucial economic conditions creating a higher ambition to wager, to attempt to find a quick win, a way out of the crisis.
For most of the locals subsisting on the tiny local earnings, there are two popular types of gaming, the national lottery and Zimbet. Just as with almost everywhere else in the world, there is a national lottery where the probabilities of succeeding are remarkably small, but then the jackpots are also surprisingly big. It’s been said by economists who understand the idea that the lion’s share don’t buy a card with a real belief of winning. Zimbet is built on one of the national or the English soccer leagues and involves predicting the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other hand, cater to the incredibly rich of the state and vacationers. Up until not long ago, there was a very big sightseeing industry, built on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic collapse and connected violence have carved into this market.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and one armed bandits, and the Plumtree Casino, which has just the slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only one armed bandits. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which have table games, slot machines and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, both of which have gaming machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the aforestated alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a parimutuel betting system), there are a total of 2 horse racing complexes in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the market has shrunk by more than 40 percent in the past few years and with the associated deprivation and crime that has resulted, it is not well-known how healthy the vacationing business which supports Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the next few years. How many of the casinos will carry through until conditions improve is simply not known.
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