The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the moment, so you might imagine that there would be little appetite for patronizing Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. In reality, it seems to be functioning the other way, with the crucial economic conditions leading to a bigger eagerness to bet, to try and discover a quick win, a way out of the crisis.
For almost all of the people surviving on the meager local money, there are 2 dominant forms of gambling, the national lottery and Zimbet. Just as with almost everywhere else on the globe, there is a state lotto where the chances of hitting are surprisingly low, but then the winnings are also surprisingly high. It’s been said by financial experts who study the subject that many don’t purchase a ticket with a real expectation of profiting. Zimbet is centered on either the local or the English football leagues and involves predicting the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other shoe, pander to the exceedingly rich of the state and sightseers. Until not long ago, there was a extremely substantial sightseeing business, founded on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic woes and connected violence have carved into this market.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has only slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slots. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which have gaming tables, 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 have gaming machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the aforestated alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a pools system), there are also two horse racing complexes in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the economy has deflated by more than 40 percent in recent years and with the associated deprivation and conflict that has cropped up, it isn’t known how healthy the sightseeing business which funds Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the near future. How many of them will carry on until things improve is basically unknown.
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