The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the moment, so you may envision that there would be very little affinity for supporting Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In fact, it seems to be working the other way around, with the critical market conditions creating a larger ambition to wager, to try and find a fast win, a way out of the crisis.
For the majority of the people surviving on the tiny local money, there are 2 established types of gambling, the national lottery and Zimbet. As with most everywhere else on the globe, there is a state lottery where the chances of winning are extremely small, but then the prizes are also surprisingly big. It’s been said by economists who study the concept that most do not buy a ticket with a real belief of hitting. Zimbet is based on either the national or the UK soccer leagues and involves predicting the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other foot, cater to the very rich of the nation and tourists. Up until recently, there was a exceptionally large vacationing business, based on nature trips and trips to Victoria Falls. The market woes and associated violence have cut into this trade.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and one armed bandits, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has just the slots. 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 offer gaming tables, slots and video 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 blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the aforestated talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of two horse racing tracks in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the economy has diminished by beyond 40% in the past few years and with the connected deprivation and conflict that has cropped up, it is not known how well the tourist industry which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the near future. How many of them will carry through until things improve is merely unknown.
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