The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the moment, so you could envision that there might be very little appetite for going to Zimbabwe’s casinos. Actually, it seems to be working the other way, with the desperate economic conditions leading to a bigger ambition to play, to attempt to discover a fast win, a way from the crisis.
For many of the locals surviving on the tiny local earnings, there are two dominant types of gaming, the national lottery and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else on the planet, there is a national lottery where the probabilities of winning are extremely small, but then the winnings are also remarkably high. It’s been said by economists who look at the idea that most do not buy a ticket with the rational belief of profiting. Zimbet is built on either the local or the UK soccer divisions and involves determining the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other hand, pamper the very rich of the country and vacationers. Up till a short while ago, there was a very substantial sightseeing industry, centered on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic anxiety and connected bloodshed have carved into this market.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has only slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only one armed bandits. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which offer gaming tables, slots and video machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, both of which offer slot machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the aforestated mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a pools system), there is a total of two horse racing tracks in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the market has contracted by beyond forty percent in the past few years and with the associated deprivation and violence that has come to pass, it isn’t understood how healthy the sightseeing industry which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the near future. How many of them will carry on until conditions get better is basically unknown.
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