[
English ]
The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the moment, so you may think that there would be very little affinity for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In fact, it seems to be working the opposite way around, with the atrocious market circumstances creating a higher desire to gamble, to try and discover a fast win, a way out of the problems.
For most of the citizens surviving on the tiny local money, there are 2 common forms of wagering, the state lotto and Zimbet. Just as with almost everywhere else in the world, there is a national lotto where the probabilities of hitting are remarkably tiny, but then the prizes are also very large. It’s been said by market analysts who understand the situation that most do not buy a card with a real belief of winning. Zimbet is founded on either the domestic or the English football divisions and involves predicting the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other hand, cater to the considerably rich of the society and vacationers. Up until a short while ago, there was a considerably substantial sightseeing industry, based on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The market anxiety and connected crime have cut into this trade.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, 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 slot machine games. 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, the pair of which offer table games, slots and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the two of which offer slot machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the aforestated mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting system), there are also 2 horse racing tracks in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the market has diminished by beyond forty percent in recent years and with the associated poverty and bloodshed that has come to pass, it is not known how well the tourist industry which supports Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the next few years. How many of the casinos will carry through till conditions get better is merely not known.
March 12th, 2016
Tatum
Leave a reply