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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Whatever your methods for picking lottery numbers, in the end, it all comes down to chance. Still, there’s nothing wrong with looking into the stats to see if any patterns jump out.
The most recent PowerBall winner believes that he and his wife received signs from God that he should buy a ticket.
Let’s take a look at those lucky folks who managed to win big on the Lotto and PowerBall, changing their lives forever.
If you bought a lottery ticket last year at the Shell Amberfield petrol station in Gauteng, you could be the lucky winner of R23,7 million.
A woman from a small town in Iowa has claimed her share of the massive Powerball prize. Meet single grandmother, Lerynne West.
The MegaMillions jackpot now sits at a staggering $1,6 billion, making it the largest lottery prize in US history. Tata ma chance.
After playing the lottery three times a week since their varsity days, an ordinary couple from Mpumalanga became multi-millionaires over the weekend.
Defying the odds, a survivor of the Dubai plane crash just landed himself R13 million after playing the Dubai lottery.
Mariah Carey is at it again, and this time she is showing off her and her fiance’s yacht as they both anchor off the coast of Italy for the summer.
I’m sure it’s the dream of many young girls to wear the crown that comes with the Miss South Africa title, but now they can dream of some cash too.
There’s wealthy people and then there are billionaires, and this how how much money they lost after the UK decided to leave the EU.