The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the moment, so you might think that there would be little appetite for supporting Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In fact, it appears to be functioning the opposite way, with the crucial market circumstances creating a bigger ambition to bet, to try and discover a quick win, a way out of the crisis.
For nearly all of the citizens surviving on the tiny local money, there are two common forms of wagering, the state lotto and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else in the world, there is a state lotto where the odds of winning are extremely small, but then the prizes are also very large. It’s been said by financial experts who understand the subject that the majority do not buy a ticket with a real belief of hitting. Zimbet is based on one of the domestic or the British football leagues and involves predicting the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other shoe, look after the considerably rich of the country and sightseers. Up until not long ago, there was a exceptionally large tourist industry, built on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic woes and connected bloodshed have cut into this trade.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree Casino, which has just the slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slots. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which offer gaming tables, slots and video machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, both of which offer gaming machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the above alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of two horse racing complexes in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the market has diminished by more than 40 percent in the past few years and with the associated deprivation and crime that has cropped up, it is not understood how healthy the sightseeing industry which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the near future. How many of the casinos will carry through until things improve is merely unknown.
May 22nd, 2019
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