The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the moment, so you might envision that there would be little appetite for supporting Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. In reality, it appears to be operating the opposite way, with the awful economic circumstances creating a larger eagerness to gamble, to attempt to locate a quick win, a way from the problems.
For almost all of the locals subsisting on the abysmal local wages, there are two established forms of wagering, the state lotto and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else on the planet, there is a national lotto where the odds of succeeding are remarkably tiny, but then the prizes are also remarkably big. It’s been said by market analysts who study the subject that many do not buy a ticket with the rational expectation of hitting. Zimbet is built on either the domestic or the UK soccer leagues and involves determining the outcomes of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other shoe, mollycoddle the exceedingly rich of the state and tourists. Until recently, there was a considerably big vacationing business, based on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic collapse and connected crime have carved into this trade.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and one armed bandits, and the Plumtree Casino, which has only slot machines. 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, both of which have gaming tables, slots and video machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the two of which have gaming machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the previously alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a parimutuel betting system), there are a total of two horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the market has diminished by more than 40% in the past few years and with the associated deprivation and bloodshed that has arisen, it isn’t 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 the casinos will still be around until things improve is merely unknown.
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