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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 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 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.
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.
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.
If the story of a single mother, who has worked as a domestic worker for more than three decades and is drowning in debt, winning the big one doesn’t bring a smile to your face, I consider you dead inside.
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.
With less than two months until the winning R23,7 million ticket was voided, one lucky man has come forward to claim his prize.
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.
24-year-old Wisconsin resident Manuel Franco scooped the $768 million PowerBall prize, and he seems ready to handle what comes next.
South Africa’s latest multi-multi-millionaire isn’t keen to have his face splashed across the news, although he did give this interview.
A woman from a small town in Iowa has claimed her share of the massive Powerball prize. Meet single grandmother, Lerynne West.