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The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the current time, so you could think that there would be very little affinity for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. In fact, it seems to be functioning the other way, with the crucial economic conditions leading to a bigger ambition to wager, to attempt to discover a fast win, a way out of the problems.
For almost all of the people subsisting on the abysmal local wages, there are two popular types of betting, the national lotto and Zimbet. Just as with most everywhere else on the planet, there is a state lotto where the chances of succeeding are surprisingly low, but then the winnings are also extremely big. It’s been said by economists who study the situation that the majority don’t buy a card with the rational belief of hitting. Zimbet is built on one of the local or the British soccer divisions and involves determining the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other hand, pander to the extremely rich of the society and tourists. Up till recently, there was a extremely large sightseeing industry, based on nature trips and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic collapse and connected violence have cut into this market.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and one armed bandits, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has just the slots. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slot machines. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which have table games, one armed bandits and video machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the two of which has gaming machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the above alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a pools system), there is a total of two horse racing tracks in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the economy has shrunk by more than 40 percent in recent years and with the associated deprivation and crime that has arisen, it is not known how well the sightseeing business which supports Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the near future. How many of them will still be around until things improve is merely unknown.
