The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the current time, so you might envision that there would be little desire for supporting Zimbabwe’s casinos. Actually, it appears to be operating the other way, with the awful market circumstances leading to a bigger desire to wager, to attempt to locate a quick win, a way from the problems.
For nearly all of the people surviving on the meager local wages, there are two popular types of betting, the national lottery and Zimbet. Just as with almost everywhere else in the world, there is a national lottery where the probabilities of succeeding are surprisingly tiny, but then the winnings are also surprisingly big. It’s been said by economists who understand the situation that the majority don’t purchase a ticket with the rational assumption of winning. Zimbet is based on one of the domestic or the UK soccer divisions and involves determining the outcomes of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other shoe, mollycoddle the extremely rich of the state and vacationers. Up until recently, there was a exceptionally big vacationing industry, based on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic anxiety and connected violence have cut into this trade.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 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 just slot machines. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two of which offer table games, slot machines and video machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the pair of which offer slot machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the aforestated alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a pools system), there is 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 economy has shrunk by beyond forty percent in the past few years and with the associated deprivation and violence that has arisen, it is not known how healthy the tourist business which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the in the years to come. How many of them will still be around till conditions get better is merely unknown.
