The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the moment, so you may think that there might be little desire for going to Zimbabwe’s casinos. In reality, it seems to be operating the opposite way around, with the atrocious market circumstances creating a higher desire to gamble, to try and locate a quick win, a way out of the crisis.
For many of the citizens living on the meager nearby earnings, there are two established types of wagering, the national lotto and Zimbet. Just as with almost everywhere else in the world, there is a state lotto where the probabilities of succeeding are remarkably small, but then the winnings are also unbelievably large. It’s been said by market analysts who look at the idea that many don’t purchase a ticket with the rational belief of hitting. Zimbet is centered on either the national or the United Kingston football divisions and involves predicting the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other shoe, cater to the astonishingly rich of the country and sightseers. Up till a short while ago, there was a very big sightseeing industry, founded on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The market collapse and associated violence have carved into this trade.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and one armed bandits, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has only slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slots. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which contain table games, one armed bandits and video machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the pair of which has video poker machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the previously talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a pools system), there is a total of two horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the market has deflated by beyond forty percent in recent years and with the connected poverty and bloodshed that has resulted, it isn’t well-known how healthy the vacationing business which supports Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the next few years. How many of them will be alive until things improve is merely not known.
