Zimbabwe gambling dens
Sunday, 6. April 2025
The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the current time, so you may imagine that there would be very little desire for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. Actually, it seems to be working the opposite way, with the awful economic conditions creating a larger eagerness to bet, to try and discover a quick win, a way out of the crisis.
For nearly all of the people living on the abysmal local money, there are 2 common types of betting, the state lottery and Zimbet. Just as with most everywhere else in the world, there is a national lottery where the odds of succeeding are extremely small, but then the prizes are also extremely high. It’s been said by economists who understand the situation that many do not purchase a ticket with a real expectation of profiting. Zimbet is founded on either the local or the United Kingston football divisions and involves predicting the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other shoe, cater to the exceedingly rich of the state and travelers. Up until a short while ago, there was a considerably large tourist business, founded on nature trips and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic collapse and connected conflict have carved into this trade.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and one armed bandits, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has just the slots. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slots. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which offer table games, slots 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 slot machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the above alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a pools system), there is a total of two horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the economy has diminished by more than 40% in recent years and with the connected deprivation and bloodshed that has cropped up, it is not well-known how well the vacationing business which funds Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the in the years to come. How many of them will carry through till things get better is merely not known.
Posted in Casino by Ismael