The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the moment, so you could imagine that there would be very little appetite for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In fact, it appears to be functioning the opposite way around, with the awful market conditions leading to a higher ambition to play, to attempt to discover a fast win, a way out of the crisis.
For nearly all of the citizens living on the meager local money, there are 2 established types of betting, the national lotto and Zimbet. Just as with practically everywhere else in the world, there is a state lotto where the odds of profiting are surprisingly tiny, but then the winnings are also unbelievably high. It’s been said by market analysts who look at the concept that the majority do not buy a ticket with a real belief of hitting. Zimbet is built on one of the national or the United Kingston soccer leagues and involves predicting the outcomes of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other hand, pander to the exceedingly rich of the nation and tourists. Until a short while ago, there was a considerably substantial tourist industry, built on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The market anxiety and connected bloodshed have cut into this trade.
Amongst 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 only slot machines. 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, both of which offer table games, one armed bandits and video machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which have slot machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the previously talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a pools system), there are also 2 horse racing complexes in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the market has contracted by more than 40% in the past few years and with the connected poverty and conflict that has come to pass, it isn’t known how healthy the sightseeing industry which funds Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the next few years. How many of the casinos will carry on till things improve is merely not known.