The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the moment, so you could envision that there might be little desire for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In reality, it seems to be operating the opposite way around, with the critical market conditions creating a higher ambition to gamble, to attempt to locate a fast win, a way out of the problems.
For most of the locals subsisting on the abysmal local money, there are 2 dominant types of gaming, the national lotto and Zimbet. Just as with most everywhere else on the planet, there is a national lottery where the chances of succeeding are remarkably small, but then the jackpots are also remarkably large. It’s been said by market analysts who understand the subject that most do not purchase a card with the rational assumption of profiting. Zimbet is built on one of the local or the British football leagues and involves predicting the outcomes of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other hand, mollycoddle the very rich of the society and tourists. Until a short while ago, there was a very substantial vacationing industry, centered on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic collapse and associated conflict have cut into this trade.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree Casino, which has only slot machine games. 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, both of which have gaming tables, slots and electronic poker 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 tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the aforestated talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a pools system), there are also 2 horse racing tracks in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the market has contracted by more than 40 percent in the past few years and with the associated deprivation and crime that has cropped up, it isn’t known how healthy the sightseeing industry which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the next few years. How many of the casinos will be alive until conditions get better is merely not known.
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