Zimbabwe gambling halls
June 29th, 2025 at 5:25
The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the moment, so you might think that there would be very little desire for supporting Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. Actually, it seems to be functioning the other way around, with the awful economic circumstances creating a larger desire to wager, to attempt to find a fast win, a way from the situation.
For nearly all of the citizens subsisting on the abysmal local wages, there are two popular styles of gambling, the national lotto and Zimbet. Just as with practically everywhere else in the world, there is a state lotto where the odds of hitting are unbelievably tiny, but then the jackpots are also very big. It’s been said by economists who study the concept that many don’t buy a card with an actual expectation of winning. Zimbet is based on either the national or the English football divisions and involves predicting the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other hand, pamper the extremely rich of the country and vacationers. Until recently, there was a extremely large vacationing industry, based on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The market collapse and associated conflict have cut into this market.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has only slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slot machines. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two of which offer gaming tables, one armed bandits and video machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the pair of which has gaming machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the aforestated mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting system), there are also 2 horse racing tracks in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the market has diminished by beyond 40 percent in recent years and with the associated poverty and bloodshed that has cropped up, it is not known how well the sightseeing industry which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the near future. How many of them will be alive till things get better is basically unknown.