The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the current time, so you might envision that there would be little affinity for supporting Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. In reality, it seems to be operating the opposite way, with the atrocious market conditions leading to a bigger ambition to wager, to try and locate a fast win, a way out of the problems.
For nearly all of the people surviving on the meager nearby money, there are two established forms of wagering, the state lottery and Zimbet. Just as with practically everywhere else in the world, there is a state lotto where the odds of hitting are remarkably low, but then the prizes are also surprisingly big. It’s been said by economists who understand the situation that the lion’s share don’t buy a ticket with the rational expectation of winning. Zimbet is built on either the local or the English football divisions and involves determining the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other shoe, pamper the extremely rich of the state and vacationers. Until a short time ago, there was a very substantial vacationing business, founded on nature trips and trips to Victoria Falls. The market collapse and associated crime have carved 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 Casino, which has only slot machine games. 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, both of which offer table games, slots and video machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which has slot machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the previously mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a parimutuel betting system), there are a total of 2 horse racing tracks in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the market has diminished by beyond 40 percent in the past few years and with the associated deprivation and crime that has resulted, it is not known how well the sightseeing business which funds Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the next few years. How many of them will carry on until conditions get better is merely unknown.
