The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the moment, so you could imagine that there would be little appetite for supporting Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. In fact, it appears to be operating the opposite way around, with the atrocious market circumstances creating a greater ambition to gamble, to try and discover a quick win, a way out of the crisis.
For nearly all of the locals surviving on the meager nearby earnings, there are two popular forms of betting, the national lottery and Zimbet. Just as with most everywhere else on the planet, there is a state lotto where the probabilities of winning are surprisingly low, but then the jackpots are also very high. It’s been said by economists who understand the idea that most don’t buy a card with the rational assumption of hitting. Zimbet is centered on either the domestic or the English soccer leagues and involves determining the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other shoe, cater to the exceedingly rich of the nation and vacationers. Up till a short time ago, there was a very large sightseeing industry, based on nature trips and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic collapse and associated bloodshed have carved into this trade.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, 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 just the 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, both of which contain gaming tables, 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 slot machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the previously alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a pools system), there are also 2 horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the economy has diminished by more than 40% in the past few years and with the connected poverty and violence that has come about, it is not known how well the vacationing industry which supports Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the near future. How many of them will survive until things improve is basically not known.
December 18th, 2015
Mohammed
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