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Call me old-fashioned but my dream is to win the lottery and retire early.

As in the exact day I find out I won.

In the case of a 72-year-old KwaZulu-Natal man, he’s already ticked that box.

His R7,50 ticket won him the R100 million PowerBall jackpot on November 16, after a few days of uncertainty over whether the person with the winning ticket was going to come forward.

The winner of the PowerBall Plus jackpot, a cool R50 million, has not yet come forward to claim the prize.

Check your tickets, people!

IOL reports:

National Lottery Ithuba said after almost a week of calling on KZN players to come forward and claim their winnings, the pensioner came forward, saying he was in a state of complete disbelief.

He told Ithuba he kept on checking his winning ticket to make sure if he had really won.

“I was hoping to catch a big fish and instead caught a whale.

You’ll notice the word ‘pensioner’ there.

Turns out the former engineer retired at 52, so he’s already had a good 20 years of putting his feet up.

The man said he has been playing the lottery for 14 years, every Tuesday and Friday, with his previous biggest win in the region of R30 to R60.

The winner has no immediate festive holiday plans due to the Covid-19 pandemic, but will be consulting his private banker for financial advice and investment plans.

“At the moment, only my daughter knows, and I told her to keep it quiet.”

I’m sure she’s just as chuffed as he is. I’d struggle to keep that quiet, but you don’t disobey a man who just won R100 million.

He bought the ticket in Margate on KZN’s South Coast

The winning numbers were 8, 9, 36, 42, 50 and the PowerBall was 4.

Back to the slog and grind for us peasants.

[source:iol]