The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the current time, so you might imagine that there would be little desire for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. Actually, it seems to be functioning the opposite way around, with the awful economic conditions leading to a bigger eagerness to gamble, to attempt to find a fast win, a way from the problems.
For nearly all of the locals living on the meager local money, there are 2 dominant styles of gaming, the national lottery and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else on the planet, there is a state lotto where the odds of succeeding are unbelievably small, but then the jackpots are also remarkably large. It’s been said by financial experts who look at the idea that most do not buy a ticket with the rational assumption of profiting. Zimbet is founded on one of the national or the UK football leagues and involves predicting the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other foot, pamper the extremely rich of the state and vacationers. Up until a short while ago, there was a very substantial sightseeing business, built on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The market anxiety and connected violence have cut into this market.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, 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 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 have table games, one armed bandits 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 have gaming machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the above alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a parimutuel betting system), there are also two horse racing complexes in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the economy has contracted by beyond 40% in recent years and with the connected deprivation and violence that has resulted, it isn’t well-known how well the tourist industry which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the near future. How many of them will be alive until conditions improve is simply unknown.