Here’s your feel-good (read: jealous) Friday story.
Someone, somewhere in South Africa, is walking around with a lottery ticket worth R13,8 million, and they haven’t checked it yet.
South Africa’s National Lotteries Commission has come under fire for some suspect project funding, some of which just happens to stay in the family.
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 National Lottery in the UK conducted their first-ever draw on November 19, 1994. Since then, many dreams have come true.
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.
Cruising around somewhere in Pretoria, is the unwitting winner of R30-million in the National Lottery. He or she has been going about their business every day, with no idea that they hold the ticket to the PowerBall jackpot drawn on 17 August last year. And there are only six more days until the winnings expire.