The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the moment, so you could think that there would be very little affinity for going to Zimbabwe’s casinos. In fact, it seems to be working the other way, with the awful economic circumstances creating a greater ambition to play, to attempt to discover a quick win, a way from the crisis.
For many of the locals surviving on the meager nearby earnings, there are two popular styles of gambling, the national lottery and Zimbet. Just as with practically everywhere else on the globe, there is a national lottery where the probabilities of hitting are extremely tiny, but then the prizes are also very high. It’s been said by financial experts who study the situation that many don’t buy a ticket with a real expectation of winning. Zimbet is built on one of the national or the English football divisions and involves determining the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other shoe, pander to the astonishingly rich of the state and travelers. Up till not long ago, there was a exceptionally big vacationing industry, based on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The market woes and associated violence have cut into this trade.
Among Zimbabwe’s casinos, 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 Casino, which has just the slot machine games. 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 pair of which offer table games, one armed bandits and video 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 blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the aforestated mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a pools system), there are also two horse racing complexes in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the market has shrunk by more than forty percent in the past few years and with the connected poverty and violence that has cropped up, it isn’t understood how well the vacationing industry which funds Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the next few years. How many of them will carry on until things get better is simply not known.
March 20th, 2025
Cohen
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