The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the current time, so you might think that there would be little desire for supporting Zimbabwe’s casinos. In reality, it seems to be working the other way, with the desperate economic circumstances leading to a greater ambition to play, to attempt to locate a fast win, a way out of the situation.
For most of the citizens living on the tiny local wages, there are two dominant styles of betting, the national lotto and Zimbet. As with most everywhere else on the planet, there is a national lotto where the chances of winning are unbelievably low, but then the prizes are also extremely large. It’s been said by market analysts who look at the subject that most do not buy a card with the rational assumption of hitting. Zimbet is based on one of the local or the UK football divisions and involves predicting the outcomes of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other shoe, pamper the extremely rich of the nation and sightseers. Until a short while ago, there was a very large tourist business, founded on nature trips and trips to Victoria Falls. The market anxiety and connected violence have carved into this market.
Among Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five 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 slots. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which contain gaming tables, one armed bandits 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 has gaming machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the aforestated talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a pools system), there are a total of two horse racing tracks in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the economy has contracted by beyond forty percent in the past few years and with the associated deprivation and crime that has arisen, it isn’t well-known how well the sightseeing industry which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the next few years. How many of them will survive till things improve is basically not known.
