The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the moment, so you could imagine that there would be little affinity for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. Actually, it seems to be working the opposite way around, with the desperate economic circumstances creating a larger eagerness to bet, to attempt to find a quick win, a way out of the difficulty.
For most of the citizens subsisting on the tiny local money, there are 2 common styles of gambling, the national lotto and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else on the planet, there is a state lottery where the chances of profiting are surprisingly low, but then the jackpots are also extremely big. It’s been said by economists who understand the subject that most do not buy a ticket with a real assumption of hitting. Zimbet is built on one of the local or the British football leagues and involves predicting the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other foot, pander to the very rich of the country and travelers. Up till recently, there was a incredibly big vacationing industry, centered on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic anxiety and associated conflict have carved into this market.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, 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 den, which has just the slot machines. 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 contain gaming tables, slot machines and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which offer gaming machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the previously alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a pools system), there is a total of two horse racing tracks in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the market has diminished by beyond 40 percent in recent years and with the connected poverty and bloodshed that has come to pass, it isn’t well-known how healthy the vacationing business which supports Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the next few years. How many of the casinos will still be around until conditions get better is merely not known.
March 31st, 2016
Cohen
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