The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the current time, so you might think that there might be little appetite for patronizing Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. Actually, it seems to be working the opposite way, with the desperate market conditions leading to a larger desire to bet, to attempt to discover a fast win, a way out of the situation.
For nearly all of the people subsisting on the abysmal nearby earnings, there are 2 dominant types of gaming, the national lottery and Zimbet. As with most everywhere else on the globe, there is a national lotto where the probabilities of succeeding are surprisingly tiny, but then the prizes are also remarkably large. It’s been said by market analysts who study the subject that the lion’s share do not purchase a ticket with an actual assumption of hitting. Zimbet is founded on either the local or the UK football divisions and involves determining the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other shoe, pamper the astonishingly rich of the state and vacationers. Up until a short while ago, there was a considerably substantial vacationing industry, built on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The market woes and connected conflict have carved into this trade.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree Casino, which has just the slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slot machines. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which have 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, each of which offer slot machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the above mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a pools system), there are also 2 horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the economy has contracted by more than 40% in the past few years and with the associated poverty and bloodshed that has arisen, it is not well-known how healthy the vacationing industry which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the next few years. How many of the casinos will still be around until things get better is simply not known.
