The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the moment, so you might think that there would be little desire for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. In fact, it seems to be working the opposite way, with the awful market conditions leading to a higher ambition to gamble, to try and discover a fast win, a way from the difficulty.
For nearly all of the people surviving on the meager local earnings, there are two dominant forms of gaming, the state lotto and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else on the planet, there is a state lotto where the probabilities of winning are surprisingly small, but then the jackpots are also surprisingly large. It’s been said by financial experts who study the idea that most don’t buy a ticket with the rational belief of winning. Zimbet is built on one of the national or the UK football divisions and involves determining the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other hand, pamper the exceedingly rich of the society and tourists. Until a short time ago, there was a considerably large sightseeing business, centered on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic woes and associated bloodshed have carved into this market.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree Casino, which has only slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slot machines. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which contain gaming tables, slots and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the pair of which offer gaming machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the previously mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting system), there are also 2 horse racing complexes in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the market has shrunk by beyond forty percent in the past few years and with the associated deprivation and violence that has come about, it is not known how healthy the vacationing business which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the next few years. How many of the casinos will be alive till conditions improve is merely not known.
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