The act of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the current time, so you may envision that there might be little appetite for patronizing Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. Actually, it seems to be working the opposite way around, with the atrocious economic circumstances creating a greater eagerness to wager, to try and discover a fast win, a way from the problems.
For almost all of the citizens living on the abysmal local wages, there are two established types of gambling, the state lottery and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else on the planet, there is a state lottery where the probabilities of winning are extremely small, but then the winnings are also remarkably large. It’s been said by market analysts who study the subject that the lion’s share do not buy a ticket with a real expectation of winning. Zimbet is centered on one of the local or the English football leagues and involves determining the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other shoe, pamper the considerably rich of the country and tourists. Up till a short time ago, there was a very big vacationing business, centered on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic anxiety and connected crime have carved into this market.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, 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 just slots. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which have gaming tables, slot machines and video machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which has gaming machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the previously alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a parimutuel betting system), there are also 2 horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the economy has shrunk by more than forty percent in recent years and with the connected deprivation and violence that has resulted, it is not understood how healthy the vacationing business which funds Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the near future. How many of the casinos will carry through till conditions improve is basically not known.
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