The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the current time, so you might envision that there would be little appetite for patronizing Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. In reality, it appears to be working the opposite way, with the awful market conditions creating a greater ambition to play, to attempt to locate a fast win, a way out of the crisis.
For almost all of the people living on the tiny nearby wages, there are two established types of gambling, the national lottery and Zimbet. Just as with most everywhere else in the world, there is a national lotto where the odds of succeeding are surprisingly low, but then the jackpots are also surprisingly big. It’s been said by market analysts who study the subject that the majority don’t buy a card with a real belief of winning. Zimbet is built on either the national or the English football leagues and involves determining the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other foot, pander to the astonishingly rich of the state and vacationers. Up until not long ago, there was a very big sightseeing industry, based on nature trips and trips to Victoria Falls. The market collapse and associated bloodshed have cut into this trade.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has only slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slot machines. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which have table games, one armed bandits and video machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the two of which have slot machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the previously alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a pools system), there are also two horse racing complexes in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the market has shrunk by more than forty percent in recent years and with the connected deprivation and bloodshed that has resulted, it is not understood how healthy the sightseeing business which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the next few years. How many of the casinos will be alive till conditions improve is merely unknown.
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