The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the moment, so you could imagine that there would be little appetite for patronizing Zimbabwe’s casinos. In reality, it seems to be functioning the other way, with the crucial economic conditions creating a larger eagerness to play, to attempt to locate a fast win, a way out of the problems.
For almost all of the people surviving on the tiny local earnings, there are two established styles of betting, the state lottery and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else in the world, there is a national lottery where the odds of winning are unbelievably low, but then the prizes are also extremely large. It’s been said by economists who study the concept that many do not buy a ticket with an actual expectation of profiting. Zimbet is centered on one of the national or the UK soccer leagues and involves predicting the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other foot, mollycoddle the considerably rich of the country and tourists. Up until a short while ago, there was a considerably large tourist business, based on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic anxiety and associated crime 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 five gaming tables and one armed bandits, and the Plumtree Casino, 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 have table games, one armed bandits and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, both of which offer video poker machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the aforestated talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a parimutuel betting system), there are a total of two horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the economy has deflated by more than forty percent in recent years and with the connected deprivation and crime that has come to pass, it isn’t known how healthy the sightseeing business which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the next few years. How many of them will survive until things get better is merely not known.
August 5th, 2022
Nathanial
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