Zimbabwe Casinos
Monday, 5. March 2018
The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the moment, so you could imagine that there might be little appetite for supporting Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In fact, it seems to be working the opposite way around, with the desperate market circumstances creating a greater eagerness to gamble, to try and locate a quick win, a way out of the situation.
For many of the citizens living on the meager local wages, there are two dominant forms of gambling, the national lottery and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else in the world, there is a state lottery where the odds of profiting are surprisingly low, but then the jackpots are also extremely high. It’s been said by economists who understand the concept that many do not purchase a ticket with a real expectation of winning. Zimbet is built on one of the domestic or the English soccer divisions and involves determining the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other foot, mollycoddle the extremely rich of the nation and tourists. Up till a short while ago, there was a exceptionally large tourist industry, built on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic collapse and associated violence have cut into this trade.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has just the slot machines. 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 two of which contain gaming tables, slots and video machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the pair of which offer slot machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the above talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a parimutuel betting system), there are also two horse racing complexes in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the economy has deflated by more than 40 percent in recent years and with the connected deprivation and bloodshed that has arisen, it isn’t known how healthy the vacationing business which funds Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the next few years. How many of the casinos will still be around till conditions improve is merely not known.
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