The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the moment, so you may think that there might be very little appetite for supporting Zimbabwe’s casinos. Actually, it appears to be functioning the opposite way, with the atrocious economic conditions leading to a bigger ambition to gamble, to try and locate a quick win, a way from the difficulty.
For many of the locals subsisting on the meager local earnings, there are two dominant types of betting, the national lotto and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else on the planet, there is a state lottery where the chances of profiting are remarkably tiny, but then the prizes are also extremely high. It’s been said by financial experts who understand the situation that the lion’s share do not buy a card with a real expectation of winning. Zimbet is based on either the national or the United Kingston football leagues and involves predicting the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other hand, pander to the exceedingly rich of the state and sightseers. Up until a short while ago, there was a considerably big vacationing industry, built on nature trips and trips to Victoria Falls. The market collapse and associated bloodshed have cut into this market.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has only slots. 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 offer gaming tables, slots and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which have slot machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the above alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of 2 horse racing tracks in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the economy has deflated by more than forty percent in the past few years and with the connected deprivation and violence that has come to pass, it isn’t understood how well the tourist business which supports Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the in the years to come. How many of them will be alive till conditions get better is merely unknown.
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