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The act of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the current time, so you may envision that there might be little desire for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In reality, it appears to be working the opposite way, with the desperate market conditions creating a greater eagerness to wager, to attempt to locate a quick win, a way out of the problems.
For most of the locals living on the abismal local money, there are two common types of betting, the national lotto and Zimbet. As with most everywhere else on the globe, there is a national lotto where the probabilities of hitting are surprisingly tiny, but then the jackpots are also remarkably big. It’s been said by economists who understand the situation that the majority don’t purchase a card with a real belief of hitting. Zimbet is centered on either the local or the UK football leagues and involves predicting the outcomes of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other shoe, look after the incredibly rich of the nation and sightseeers. Up until a short while ago, there was a extremely big tourist business, based on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic collapse and associated violence have cut into this market.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has only slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Centre in Kariba also has only slots. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which contain gaming tables, slot machines and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which have video poker machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the previously alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of 2 horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the market has contracted by beyond forty percentin the past few years and with the associated poverty and violence that has come about, it isn’t well-known how well the sightseeing business which funds Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the near future. How many of them will carry on until conditions get better is simply not known.
