The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the current time, so you could imagine that there would be little desire for patronizing Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. Actually, it appears to be operating the other way, with the critical market conditions leading to a larger desire to gamble, to try and discover a fast win, a way out of the difficulty.
For many of the locals surviving on the abysmal nearby money, there are 2 common types of wagering, the national lotto and Zimbet. Just as with most everywhere else on the planet, there is a national lotto where the odds of winning are extremely tiny, but then the jackpots are also surprisingly high. It’s been said by financial experts who study the situation that the lion’s share don’t purchase a card with the rational assumption of winning. Zimbet is based on one of the domestic or the UK soccer leagues and involves determining the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other shoe, pander to the considerably rich of the state and travelers. Up until a short time ago, there was a very large sightseeing business, founded on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic collapse and associated violence have carved into this market.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slot machines, 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 has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which contain gaming tables, slots 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 video poker machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the aforementioned alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a parimutuel betting system), there are also 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 economy has shrunk by beyond forty percent in recent years and with the connected poverty and crime that has come about, it is not well-known how healthy the vacationing business which supports Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the in the years to come. How many of the casinos will still be around till things improve is simply unknown.
February 22nd, 2023
Eli
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