The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the current time, so you could imagine that there would be little affinity for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. Actually, it appears to be working the opposite way around, with the critical economic circumstances creating a higher desire to wager, to try and discover a fast win, a way from the difficulty.
For almost all of the people subsisting on the meager local money, there are two established forms of gaming, the state lottery and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else in the world, there is a national lottery where the odds of hitting are remarkably low, but then the jackpots are also surprisingly high. It’s been said by economists who study the idea that the majority don’t buy a card with an actual belief of profiting. Zimbet is founded on either the local or the UK soccer divisions and involves predicting the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other hand, pander to the astonishingly rich of the nation and vacationers. Until a short while ago, there was a considerably large tourist business, based on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic anxiety and associated bloodshed have carved into this trade.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree Casino, which has just the 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 contain gaming tables, slot machines and video machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the two of which offer slot machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the aforementioned mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a pools system), there are a total of 2 horse racing complexes in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the market has contracted by beyond 40% in the past few years and with the associated deprivation and crime that has resulted, it is not known how well the vacationing industry which funds Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the near future. How many of the casinos will survive till conditions improve is basically not known.