The act of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the moment, so you may think that there might be little desire for going to Zimbabwe’s casinos. In reality, it appears to be operating the opposite way, with the atrocious market conditions creating a bigger desire to gamble, to try and find a quick win, a way out of the problems.
For nearly all of the people surviving on the meager local money, there are 2 common forms of wagering, the national lottery and Zimbet. As with most everywhere else on the globe, there is a state lottery where the chances of winning are surprisingly tiny, but then the prizes are also very high. It’s been said by market analysts who look at the situation that the majority do not buy a ticket with a real belief of winning. Zimbet is based on either the domestic or the British football leagues and involves predicting the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other shoe, mollycoddle the exceedingly rich of the nation and vacationers. Until recently, there was a considerably substantial vacationing business, centered on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic collapse and associated bloodshed have carved into this market.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has only slots. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slots. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two of which have gaming tables, slot machines and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the two of which offer video poker machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the aforementioned mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a pools system), there are also two horse racing complexes in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the economy has contracted by more than 40 percent in the past few years and with the connected poverty and bloodshed that has cropped up, it isn’t well-known how well the vacationing industry which supports Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the near future. How many of the casinos will carry through till things get better is basically unknown.
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