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.
Here’s your feel-good (read: jealous) Friday story.
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If you partake in the lotto, your October might have kicked off with a R10 million Lotto jackpot.
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 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 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.
Someone, somewhere in South Africa, is walking around with a lottery ticket worth R13,8 million, and they haven’t checked it yet.
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.
A WhatsApp message promising your ex R1 million after you win the lottery could be used against you in a court of law.
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.
A regular customer left a bartender a lotto ticket instead of cash, and it turned out to be the best tip she’d ever received.
The person who just won the EuroMillions jackpot is now richer than Tom Jones, Adele, and Ed Sheeran.
The most recent PowerBall winner believes that he and his wife received signs from God that he should buy a ticket.
The three most recent South African lottery winners talk about how they selected their numbers, and what they plan on doing with their winnings.
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 66-year-old man’s granddaughter gave him a fortune cookie. Years later, he hit the big one using the numbers he found inside.
A former cop has been sentenced to 15 years in jail for stealing his father’s lottery winnings, and then there’s the murdered son.
When you’ve been playing the same numbers for 30 years, you’re probably due a little luck. This double win takes the cake.
Are you coming into some money soon, or feeling like this is the week your Lotto numbers come in? That’s cool, but I would pump the brakes just a little.
Most of us would find it hard to keep a lottery win under wraps, but one South African has managed to fly under the radar for two years. Here’s how he did it.
Jane Park has quite a rollercoaster ride since winning the EuroMillion jackpot as a 17-year-old, and along the way she has racked up the Instagram followers.
Marriage isn’t easy, so I hear, but you’d think winning a fortune one month in would help ease some of the troubles. Not for these two.
Winning the lottery can cause substantial rifts in a family – and the latest Euromillions winners might have their fair share of trouble in paradise.
Some days, you can’t help but feel like you might just get lucky – and if you play your cards right, sometimes you’ll find you do.
Tata ma chance, tata ma R20 million. It was a pretty decent beginning to the month of May for one lucky Saffa.