The act of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the current time, so you may imagine that there might be very little appetite for going to Zimbabwe’s casinos. In reality, it seems to be working the other way around, with the awful market conditions creating a bigger desire to gamble, to try and locate a quick win, a way out of the situation.
For many of the citizens surviving on the meager nearby earnings, there are two popular types of wagering, the national lottery and Zimbet. Just as with almost everywhere else on the planet, there is a national lottery where the chances of succeeding are remarkably small, but then the winnings are also unbelievably high. It’s been said by economists who study the situation that many don’t buy a card with a real assumption of profiting. Zimbet is centered on one of the national or the English soccer divisions and involves predicting the outcomes of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other shoe, pamper the extremely rich of the society and vacationers. Up till a short while ago, there was a very large sightseeing industry, based on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The market anxiety and associated conflict have cut into this trade.
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 only slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just one armed bandits. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two of which contain table games, one armed bandits and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the two of which offer gaming machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the aforestated talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting system), there are a total of two 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 diminished by beyond 40 percent in recent years and with the associated poverty and conflict that has resulted, it isn’t well-known how healthy the tourist industry which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the near future. How many of them will carry through till conditions improve is basically not known.