The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the moment, so you could imagine that there would be little affinity for going to Zimbabwe’s casinos. Actually, it appears to be working the opposite way around, with the critical economic circumstances leading to a greater eagerness to wager, to attempt to find a fast win, a way out of the crisis.
For almost all of the locals living on the tiny local earnings, there are 2 common forms of betting, the state lottery and Zimbet. Just as with practically everywhere else in the world, there is a state lotto where the chances of succeeding are surprisingly tiny, but then the winnings are also extremely big. It’s been said by market analysts who study the situation that many do not purchase a card with the rational expectation of winning. Zimbet is centered on one of the local or the United Kingston soccer leagues and involves determining the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other shoe, pamper the exceedingly rich of the country and tourists. Up until not long ago, there was a extremely large tourist business, centered on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The market collapse and associated bloodshed have carved 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 one armed bandits, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has only slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slot machines. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which have table games, one armed bandits and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which have video poker machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the aforementioned talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a pools system), there is a total of two horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the market has diminished by more than 40 percent in recent years and with the connected poverty and violence that has come to pass, it is not known how well the vacationing industry which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the next few years. How many of the casinos will carry through till things improve is simply not known.
March 17th, 2016
Nathanial
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