The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the moment, so you might imagine that there would be little desire for supporting Zimbabwe’s casinos. In fact, it seems to be working the opposite way around, with the critical economic conditions leading to a higher desire to gamble, to attempt to discover a fast win, a way out of the situation.
For the majority of the citizens living on the abysmal nearby money, there are two dominant forms of wagering, the national lottery and Zimbet. Just as with most everywhere else on the planet, there is a state lottery where the chances of profiting are remarkably low, but then the prizes are also remarkably high. It’s been said by market analysts who understand the situation that many don’t buy a card with an actual belief of profiting. Zimbet is based on one of the local or the UK football divisions and involves predicting the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other shoe, cater to the exceedingly rich of the nation and vacationers. Until not long ago, there was a incredibly big vacationing industry, founded on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic collapse and associated conflict have carved into this market.
Among 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 gambling den, which has only slots. 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 have gaming tables, slot machines and electronic 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 tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the aforestated alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a parimutuel betting system), there are a total of 2 horse racing tracks in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the market has contracted by more than 40 percent in recent years and with the associated poverty and violence that has come to pass, it isn’t understood how well the sightseeing industry which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the near future. How many of them will still be around until conditions improve is simply unknown.
April 8th, 2025
Dayton
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