The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the moment, so you could think that there would be little affinity for patronizing Zimbabwe’s casinos. Actually, it appears to be operating the opposite way around, with the desperate economic conditions creating a higher eagerness to wager, to try and locate a fast win, a way out of the situation.
For nearly all of the people surviving on the abysmal local money, there are two common forms of gambling, the national lotto and Zimbet. As with most everywhere else on the globe, there is a state lotto where the odds of hitting are surprisingly tiny, but then the winnings are also unbelievably high. It’s been said by financial experts who study the concept that the lion’s share do not buy a card with a real expectation of winning. Zimbet is based on one of the local or the British football divisions and involves determining the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other shoe, mollycoddle the exceedingly rich of the society and vacationers. Until a short while ago, there was a considerably big sightseeing industry, based on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The market anxiety and associated conflict have cut into this trade.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and one armed bandits, and the Plumtree Casino, which has just the slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only one armed bandits. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two of which offer gaming tables, slot machines and video machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which offer gaming machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the above mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a pools system), there is a total of two horse racing complexes in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the market has diminished by more than 40 percent in the past few years and with the associated poverty and bloodshed that has arisen, it isn’t understood how healthy the sightseeing industry which supports Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the near future. How many of the casinos will carry through until things get better is merely not known.
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