The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the moment, so you could think that there might be little affinity for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In reality, it seems to be functioning the other way around, with the crucial market circumstances creating a bigger ambition to gamble, to attempt to locate a fast win, a way out of the difficulty.
For most of the citizens surviving on the abysmal local money, there are two dominant forms of gambling, the state lottery and Zimbet. Just as with practically everywhere else in the world, there is a national lottery where the probabilities of hitting are remarkably small, but then the jackpots are also remarkably large. It’s been said by market analysts who look at the situation that the majority don’t buy a ticket with a real belief of winning. Zimbet is built on one of the domestic or the United Kingston soccer divisions and involves predicting the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other shoe, pamper the exceedingly rich of the state and sightseers. Up until a short time ago, there was a considerably big sightseeing business, built on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic woes and associated violence have cut into this market.
Among Zimbabwe’s casinos, 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 slots. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which have gaming tables, slot machines and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the two of which has slot 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 pools system), there is a total of 2 horse racing tracks in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the economy has shrunk by more than 40% in the past few years and with the connected poverty and crime that has come to pass, it isn’t understood how healthy the tourist business which supports Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the next few years. How many of the casinos will be alive until conditions improve is merely not known.
July 19th, 2023
Abigail
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