The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the moment, so you might imagine that there would be very little appetite for supporting Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. Actually, it seems to be functioning the other way, with the critical market circumstances creating a higher eagerness to gamble, to attempt to find a fast win, a way from the crisis.
For the majority of the citizens surviving on the meager local wages, there are two dominant styles of gambling, the state lotto and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else on the planet, there is a national lotto where the chances of hitting are extremely tiny, but then the winnings are also very large. It’s been said by market analysts who look at the situation that most don’t buy a ticket with a real assumption of hitting. Zimbet is built on one of the domestic or the English soccer divisions and involves determining the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other hand, pamper the astonishingly rich of the state and sightseers. Up till a short while ago, there was a very big vacationing business, based on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic woes and associated bloodshed have carved into this trade.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and one armed bandits, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has just the slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slot machines. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two of which contain table games, slots and video machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the pair of which have gaming machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the previously talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of two horse racing complexes in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the market has deflated by more than forty percent in the past few years and with the associated deprivation and violence that has arisen, it isn’t known how well the vacationing business which supports Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the near future. How many of the casinos will still be around until things improve is merely not known.
November 17th, 2016
Francesca
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