The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the moment, so you might imagine that there might be very little affinity for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. Actually, it appears to be working the other way, with the critical market conditions leading to a higher ambition to gamble, to try and discover a fast win, a way out of the problems.
For almost all of the locals living on the tiny nearby earnings, there are two dominant forms of gaming, the national lottery and Zimbet. Just as with almost everywhere else in the world, there is a state lottery where the probabilities of profiting are extremely low, but then the jackpots are also remarkably high. It’s been said by market analysts who understand the situation that the majority don’t purchase a card with a real assumption of profiting. Zimbet is centered on either the domestic or the English football leagues and involves predicting the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other foot, cater to the very rich of the society and travelers. Until recently, there was a extremely big tourist business, based on nature trips and trips to Victoria Falls. The market collapse and connected crime have cut into this market.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has only slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slot machines. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which contain gaming tables, one armed bandits and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, both of which offer video poker machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the aforementioned talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of 2 horse racing tracks in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the economy has contracted by more than 40 percent in the past few years and with the associated poverty and conflict that has cropped up, it isn’t well-known how healthy the tourist industry which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the in the years to come. How many of them will still be around till conditions improve is basically unknown.
March 9th, 2025
Liam
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