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The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the current time, so you might think that there would be little appetite for visiting Zimbabwe’s casinos. Actually, it seems to be working the opposite way around, with the atrocious market circumstances creating a bigger ambition to gamble, to try and locate a fast win, a way from the crisis.
For nearly all of the locals living on the meager local wages, there are 2 popular types of wagering, the national lottery and Zimbet. Just as with almost everywhere else on the globe, there is a national lotto where the probabilities of winning are remarkably small, but then the jackpots are also unbelievably large. It’s been said by economists who study the concept that the majority don’t purchase a ticket with an actual assumption of hitting. Zimbet is centered on one of the domestic or the British soccer divisions and involves determining the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other hand, pamper the extremely rich of the country and sightseers. Until a short while ago, there was a very large tourist industry, founded on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The market anxiety and associated violence have cut 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 only slots. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only one armed bandits. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which contain gaming tables, one armed bandits and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the two of which has video poker machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the above talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a pools system), there are a total of two horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the market has diminished by more than forty percent in recent years and with the associated poverty and bloodshed that has come about, it isn’t understood how healthy the tourist business which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the in the years to come. How many of the casinos will survive till things improve is merely not known.
