The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the current time, so you may think that there would be little appetite for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. In reality, it appears to be working the other way, with the desperate market conditions leading to a bigger desire to gamble, to try and locate a quick win, a way out of the crisis.
For most of the locals surviving on the tiny nearby wages, there are two dominant types of wagering, the national lotto and Zimbet. Just as with practically everywhere else on the globe, there is a national lottery where the chances of winning are remarkably small, but then the winnings are also surprisingly big. It’s been said by economists who understand the concept that the majority don’t buy a ticket with an actual belief of hitting. Zimbet is founded on one of the national or the English football leagues and involves determining the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other shoe, pamper the incredibly rich of the nation and sightseers. Until a short while ago, there was a exceptionally large tourist industry, based on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic collapse and associated conflict have carved into this trade.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, 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 gambling den, which has only slots. 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 offer table games, slot machines and video machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, both of which have slot machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the previously mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of two horse racing tracks in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the economy has diminished by beyond 40 percent in recent years and with the connected deprivation and conflict that has arisen, it isn’t known how well the sightseeing industry which funds Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the next few years. How many of the casinos will survive until things get better is simply not known.