The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the current time, so you might imagine that there would be very little affinity for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In reality, it appears to be working the opposite way around, with the critical market circumstances creating a greater ambition to gamble, to try and discover a quick win, a way from the crisis.
For the majority of the citizens living on the abysmal local wages, there are 2 dominant forms of betting, the national lottery and Zimbet. Just as with most everywhere else in the world, there is a national lotto where the probabilities of succeeding are surprisingly small, but then the jackpots are also surprisingly large. It’s been said by economists who understand the situation that the lion’s share don’t purchase a card with a real expectation of winning. Zimbet is centered on one of the local or the English soccer divisions and involves determining the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other foot, cater to the extremely rich of the country and tourists. Up until recently, there was a exceptionally large tourist industry, based on nature trips and trips to Victoria Falls. The market collapse and connected violence have carved into this market.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree Casino, which has just the slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slot machines. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two of which contain table games, slot machines and video machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, both of which have slot machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the previously alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a pools system), there are a total of 2 horse racing tracks in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the economy has shrunk by more than forty percent in the past few years and with the associated poverty and bloodshed that has come about, it is not well-known how well the tourist industry which funds Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the next few years. How many of the casinos will carry on till conditions improve is merely not known.
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