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The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the current time, so you may think that there might be little affinity for supporting Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. Actually, it appears to be working the other way around, with the atrocious economic conditions leading to a greater ambition to play, to attempt to discover a quick win, a way out of the situation.
For the majority of the locals subsisting on the meager local wages, there are two popular forms of betting, the national lotto and Zimbet. Just as with most everywhere else in the world, there is a national lottery where the odds of winning are unbelievably tiny, but then the jackpots are also remarkably high. It’s been said by economists who study the idea that the majority don’t buy a ticket with a real expectation of profiting. Zimbet is built on either the national or the United Kingston football divisions and involves determining the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other shoe, mollycoddle the considerably rich of the country and sightseeers. Up till recently, there was a very large vacationing business, built on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The market woes and connected bloodshed have carved into this trade.
Among Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are two 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 just the slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Centre in Kariba also has only slots. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which have table games, slot machines and video machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the pair of which offer video poker machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the aforementioned alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a pools 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 more than 40 percentin the past few years and with the connected deprivation and conflict that has resulted, it isn’t known how well the sightseeing business which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the near future. How many of them will carry on until things get better is simply not known.
