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The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the moment, so you could think that there would be little appetite for supporting Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. In fact, it appears to be working the opposite way, with the critical economic circumstances creating a greater eagerness to bet, to try and locate a quick win, a way from the crisis.
For nearly all of the locals surviving on the meager local money, there are 2 common forms of betting, the state lottery and Zimbet. Just as with practically everywhere else on the globe, there is a state lotto where the chances of profiting are remarkably small, but then the prizes are also unbelievably large. It’s been said by market analysts who look at the concept that the majority do not buy a card with the rational assumption of profiting. Zimbet is centered on one of the national or the British football divisions and involves predicting the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other hand, mollycoddle the incredibly rich of the state and tourists. Up until recently, there was a very big sightseeing business, based on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic collapse and connected bloodshed have cut into this trade.
Among 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 gambling hall, which has just the slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slots. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which have table games, slots and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the two of which offer gaming machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the aforementioned alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is very 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.
Seeing as that the market has contracted by beyond 40% in recent years and with the associated poverty and bloodshed that has come about, it is not known how well the vacationing industry which funds Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the next few years. How many of them will be alive until things improve is simply not known.
