The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the current time, so you could envision that there might be little desire for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In fact, it appears to be functioning the other way around, with the desperate market conditions leading to a higher eagerness to play, to try and locate a fast win, a way out of the crisis.
For almost all of the locals subsisting on the tiny nearby wages, there are two popular types of gaming, the national lotto and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else on the globe, there is a national lotto where the chances of profiting are extremely small, but then the jackpots are also remarkably high. It’s been said by economists who understand the concept that the lion’s share don’t buy a ticket with an actual expectation of hitting. Zimbet is built on either the national or the English football divisions and involves predicting the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other foot, pander to the exceedingly rich of the country and vacationers. Until a short time ago, there was a very large tourist industry, built on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The market anxiety and associated crime have carved into this trade.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has just the slot machine games. 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, the two of which offer table games, slot machines and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which has gaming machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the aforementioned talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is quite 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.
Since the economy has shrunk by beyond forty percent in recent years and with the associated deprivation and violence that has arisen, it is not known how well the tourist business which supports Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the in the years to come. How many of them will still be around till things get better is simply not known.
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