The latest LOTTO jackpot winner is R56,999,176 richer and ready to make her lifelong dream of boarding a plane a reality. The excited 63-year-old pensioner was accompanied to the ITHUBA offices by her husband, children and grandchild.
The family expressed how excited they were about their mother’s latest fortune and how her persistence in playing the Lottery has finally paid off. Her eldest daughter who was seated next to her explained how she helped her mother play LOTTO on Wednesdays and Saturdays and POWERBALL on Tuesdays and Fridays.
“Once my mother has selected her numbers, I go to the shop and play on her behalf. In the evenings I stay up with her to watch the draw show and tell her the numbers, as her eyesight is deteriorating. When I realised that all her numbers were drawn on Wednesday, I was too excited to sleep. We stayed up the whole night dancing and singing,” she said.
The next morning the family made their way to the ITHUBA offices to claim their winnings. The winner said that she regarded her luck as a blessing from the heavens, considering that she has been playing the Lottery for almost 6 years but the most amount of money she has ever won was R50. Asked if she will continue playing the Lottery, the winner said she looked forward to playing every week as it would be weird for her to stop.
With her eyes lighting up, the ecstatic winner said: “I have always daydreamed about getting onto a plane to Cape Town so much that I used to jokingly tell my children that if I win the LOTTO, I will get on a flying machine so I know what it feels like.”
As a diabetic patient, the pensioner said she can now access the best healthcare facilities and plans to buy a family car so she doesn’t have to worry about commuting to the doctor. The new multi-millionaire said she will use her money to fix her house as the roof was caving in and that she also intends to build each of her children a house.
“I come from a mountainous village in Limpopo and the roads are bad, I will use some of the money to build a road in the community,” she said.
The winner concluded that since she started playing the Lottery, she has never had a method to choosing her numbers, she added that she randomly chose her winning numbers as she usually does.
