The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the current time, so you could imagine that there might be little appetite for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In fact, it seems to be working the other way around, with the critical market conditions leading to a bigger ambition to wager, to try and locate a quick win, a way out of the problems.
For nearly all of the locals living on the tiny local wages, there are 2 common styles of gaming, the state lotto and Zimbet. Just as with most everywhere else on the globe, there is a national lottery where the odds of winning are unbelievably low, but then the jackpots are also extremely big. It’s been said by economists who look at the subject that most do not purchase a ticket with a real expectation of winning. Zimbet is centered on either the national or the British soccer leagues and involves determining the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other shoe, pamper the exceedingly rich of the country and vacationers. Until recently, there was a very substantial vacationing industry, centered on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The market anxiety and associated violence have cut into this trade.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has just the slot machine games. 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, the two of which have table games, slots and video machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the pair of which offer video poker machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the above alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of 2 horse racing complexes in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the market has deflated by beyond 40% in the past few years and with the associated deprivation and crime that has resulted, it is not understood how well the vacationing industry which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the in the years to come. How many of them will still be around until things get better is simply unknown.
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