• Home

Read more about the
Las Vegas 2024 Super
Bowl Streaker!

The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the current time, so you may think that there would be very little affinity for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In reality, it seems to be functioning the opposite way, with the critical market circumstances leading to a larger desire to gamble, to try and find a quick win, a way from the problems.

For almost all of the locals subsisting on the tiny local money, there are two established types of wagering, the national lottery and Zimbet. Just as with almost everywhere else in the world, there is a national lottery where the probabilities of winning are remarkably low, but then the winnings are also extremely big. It’s been said by financial experts who look at the situation that most don’t purchase a card with the rational belief of winning. Zimbet is built on either the national or the UK football leagues and involves predicting the results of future matches.

Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other hand, pander to the very rich of the state and travelers. Up till recently, there was a very substantial tourist business, centered on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic woes and associated violence have cut into this trade.

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 Casino, which has just the slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just one armed bandits. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two of which contain gaming tables, slots and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the two of which have gaming machines and table games.

In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the aforementioned talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a pools system), there are a total of two horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.

Given that the market has shrunk by beyond 40 percent in the past few years and with the associated poverty and conflict that has resulted, it isn’t understood how healthy the sightseeing industry which funds Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the near future. How many of the casinos will still be around till conditions get better is simply not known.

Log in