The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the moment, so you may imagine that there might be very little desire for patronizing Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. In reality, it appears to be working the opposite way around, with the crucial market conditions creating a greater eagerness to bet, to attempt to discover a quick win, a way out of the crisis.
For almost all of the locals living on the tiny local earnings, there are two common types of wagering, the national lotto and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else on the globe, there is a national lottery where the probabilities of winning are unbelievably tiny, but then the jackpots are also extremely big. It’s been said by market analysts who study the situation that most do not buy a card with an actual assumption of hitting. Zimbet is founded on either the national or the English soccer leagues and involves predicting the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other shoe, mollycoddle the extremely rich of the society and sightseers. Until not long ago, there was a very big sightseeing industry, centered on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The market woes and associated bloodshed 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 slot machines, and the Plumtree Casino, which has only slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slot machines. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which offer table games, slots and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls has 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 casinos and the aforementioned talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a pools system), there are also 2 horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the economy has diminished by more than 40 percent in the past few years and with the associated poverty and crime that has come to pass, it isn’t well-known how well the sightseeing business which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the in the years to come. How many of the casinos will be alive till things improve is basically unknown.
April 4th, 2018
Abigail
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