The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the moment, so you might imagine that there might be little desire for supporting Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In reality, it seems to be working the other way, with the awful market circumstances leading to a larger eagerness to bet, to attempt to discover a fast win, a way out of the difficulty.
For most of the people living on the tiny local money, there are 2 common forms of gambling, the state lottery and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else in the world, there is a national lottery where the odds of profiting are surprisingly small, but then the prizes are also very big. It’s been said by financial experts who study the situation that most don’t purchase a ticket with a real belief of hitting. Zimbet is founded on one of the local or the UK football divisions and involves predicting the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other hand, pamper the very rich of the society and sightseers. Until a short while ago, there was a very substantial sightseeing industry, founded on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic collapse and connected bloodshed have cut into this market.
Among Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has only slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only one armed bandits. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which offer table games, slot machines and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the pair of which have video poker machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the above alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a pools system), there is a total of two horse racing complexes in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the economy has diminished by beyond forty percent in recent years and with the connected poverty and crime that has cropped up, it is not understood how healthy the sightseeing industry which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the next few years. How many of the casinos will carry through till conditions improve is merely not known.
February 10th, 2010
Cohen
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