The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the moment, so you could think that there would be very little affinity for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In fact, it appears to be functioning the opposite way around, with the atrocious economic circumstances creating a greater eagerness to gamble, to try and locate a quick win, a way out of the problems.
For many of the citizens subsisting on the tiny nearby money, there are two popular forms of wagering, the state lottery and Zimbet. Just as with most everywhere else on the planet, there is a state lotto where the chances of succeeding are surprisingly small, but then the prizes are also surprisingly big. It’s been said by market analysts who study the idea that the lion’s share don’t buy a ticket with an actual assumption of hitting. Zimbet is centered on either the national or the United Kingston football divisions and involves predicting the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other shoe, pander to the incredibly rich of the state and sightseers. Up till recently, there was a very large tourist business, founded on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The market anxiety and connected violence have carved into this market.
Among Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has only slots. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slots. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two of which offer gaming tables, slots and video machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, both of which have slot machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the aforestated alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of two horse racing tracks in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the market has diminished by beyond 40% in recent years and with the connected deprivation and crime that has arisen, it is not known how well the sightseeing business which supports Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the near future. How many of the casinos will survive until conditions improve is merely not known.
