How to win lottery in Zimbabwe It was January 2000 in Harare, Zimbabwe. Master of Ceremonies Fallot Chawawa was in charge of drawing the winning ticket for the national lottery organized by a party state-owned bank, the Zimbabwe Banking Corporation (Zimbank). The lottery was open to all clients who had kept five thousand or more Zimbabwe dollars in their accounts during December 1999. When Chiwawa drew the ticket, he was dumbfounded. As the public statement of Zimbank put it, @Master of Ceremonies Fallot Chawawa could hardly believe his eyes when the ticket drawn for the Z$100 000 prize was handed to him and he saw His Excellency RG Mugabe written on it' The fact that Mugabe could eve wi the lottery if he wanted showed how much control he had over matters in Zimbabwe, and gave the world a glimpse of the extend of the country's extractive institutions.