Someone in Johannesburg needs to pull up their socks and notice their winning lottery ticket so that they can become an overnight bloody multi-millionaire.
In fact, two lucky Saffas are a few million Rands richer after scooping the winning Powerball lottery tickets recently.
Three Saffas won a whopping R44,762,152.47 each from the R131 million Powerball draw, while two won over R17 million from the Powerball Plus draw that took place on April 5.
Powerball said the odds of winning the jackpot are one in 292.2 million, so this guy can seriously consider himself lucky.
A US man who thought he’d won $340 million in a lottery is suing the organisers and a website which published his numbers, it has said, by mistake.
This is probably one of the more stark and poignant tales of how money cannot buy you happiness.
Here’s your feel-good (read: jealous) Friday story.
The current American Powerball (lower case ‘b’, btw) jackpot is sitting pretty at – wait for it – $725 million, or roughly R13,5 billion.
Shame, the winner was so enthralled that he kept his winning ticket under his mattress before he could make his way to the National Lottery Ithuba offices.
Let these optimistic binge-spenders be a cautionary tale if you ever suddenly find yourself with deep pockets.
The winner of the recent $2 billion Powerball isn’t the only one who had a cracking week.
In order to win, you need to buy a ticket and then match all five white balls, as well as the red Powerball.
The Witbank businessman won precisely R28 219 392 (with an extra 25 cents to boot) and says he sticks with the same method every time he plays.
The Pretoria man, who has chosen to remain anonymous, spent R150 on the FNB app and selected his own numbers ahead of the draw on Tuesday, July 19.
The latest multimillionaire lottery jackpot winner believes that her spirit of “gratitude and giving” is what sealed the deal.
The Ithuba National Lottery said that the jackpot was won on May 29 last year and the ticket is due to expire this Sunday, May 29.
We are firm believers in the fact that anybody who wins a substantial amount in a lottery should immediately cease working.
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.
A North West mother had been struggling with the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic until things turned around with a massive lottery win.
The town of Lonaconing, in Maryland, has a population of 1 200 people, or around 400 families. In their midst is the winner of a $731 million jackpot.
Two recent PowerBall winners have split R112 million down the middle, and both have touching stories related to their families.
South Africa’s latest PowerBall winner, who landed R56 million after buying R45 worth of tickets, isn’t going to splurge on anything silly.
The 30-year-old Polokwane man who won last week’s R51 million PowerBall jackpot seems to have it all figured out.
On Friday night, having just been dumped and watched his ex-girlfriend move out, South Africa’s latest multimillionaire received some very good news.
South Africans were watching the PowerBall closely, due to the whopping R119 million jackpot. The winning numbers certainly stirred up some emotion.
South Africa’s latest lottery winner is a Gauteng small business owner, whose R20 ticket landed him a R37,9 million jackpot, and he intends to try and fly under the radar.
If you agreed to split any lottery winnings with your mate, and struck it big 28 years later, would you share the prize?
The KwaZulu-Natal man is now the biggest winner in the history of PowerBall Plus, and the biggest winner ever to have bought his ticket online.
A mother of four from Soweto was dumped by her ex for not having a “fancy job”. Then she became the latest PowerBall jackpot winner.
If you want to go on about how flashy cars are a waste of money, you should probably do it when you aren’t holding a cheque for around R2 billion.