The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the current time, so you could imagine that there would be little desire for patronizing Zimbabwe’s casinos. Actually, it appears to be operating the opposite way around, with the awful economic circumstances creating a greater eagerness to bet, to try and find a quick win, a way from the crisis.
For most of the people living on the tiny nearby wages, there are two dominant forms of gaming, the state lottery and Zimbet. Just as with practically everywhere else on the planet, there is a state lotto where the chances of winning are unbelievably tiny, but then the prizes are also very large. It’s been said by market analysts who understand the situation that the majority don’t buy a ticket with an actual belief of hitting. Zimbet is founded on either the domestic or the English football divisions and involves determining the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other foot, look after the astonishingly rich of the society and sightseers. Until not long ago, there was a considerably big tourist business, centered on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The market anxiety and connected crime have carved into this trade.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has only slot machines. 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, the pair of which offer table games, slot machines and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the two of which has slot machines and table games.
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 complexes in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the economy has shrunk by beyond 40% in recent years and with the associated deprivation and bloodshed that has come about, it is not known how well the vacationing industry which funds Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the next few years. How many of them will carry through till conditions get better is simply not known.
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