The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the moment, so you may think that there would be little affinity for patronizing Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. In fact, it appears to be working the opposite way, with the desperate market circumstances leading to a bigger desire to wager, to try and find a quick win, a way out of the problems.
For nearly all of the people subsisting on the abysmal local earnings, there are 2 popular forms of gaming, the state lotto and Zimbet. Just as with most everywhere else on the globe, there is a state lottery where the probabilities of hitting are remarkably tiny, but then the prizes are also very big. It’s been said by economists who understand the idea that the lion’s share do not buy a ticket with a real assumption of winning. Zimbet is founded on either the national or the United Kingston soccer leagues and involves predicting the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other shoe, pander to the exceedingly rich of the state and travelers. Up till not long ago, there was a exceptionally big sightseeing business, founded on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic anxiety and associated violence have cut into this trade.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has just the slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only one armed bandits. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both 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 slot machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the aforestated mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a pools system), there is a total of two horse racing complexes in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the economy has deflated by more than 40% in the past few years and with the connected deprivation and violence that has resulted, it isn’t understood how healthy the vacationing business which supports Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the next few years. How many of them will survive till conditions improve is simply unknown.
