A lottery ticket bought from Shoprite in Glen Ridge, Soweto won the R20-million Lotto Guaranteed jackpot from the Saturday, 30 April draw, turning a mid-50s factory worker into a multi-millionaire.
She had bought the R20 winning ticket around midday on that Saturday and was the only one that matched all six Lotto numbers scooping the guaranteed jackpot.To celebrate last Wednesday’s April 27 Freedom Day holiday, Ithuba raised the stakes by putting up a R20-million guaranteed Lotto jackpot for the Saturday evening’s draw. The prize has been claimed by a shocked and emotional woman from Soweto last week.
She had kept her winning ticket inside her Bible and thought it had been a big mistake that it somehow matched all six numbers. She’s thrilled that she will finally get to fulfill her dream of retiring early and acquire a home by the sea. “This will transform my life,” she said while struggling to hold back tears.
She said her other dream of buying her daughter a house will finally also be fulfilled. She’s excited that her retirement money will now be like an added bonus as she enters a new life as a South Africa’s newest multi-millionaire.
This is the Lotto game’s 31st R1-million-plus jackpot winning ticket since June last year when Ithuba took over the running of the lottery.
A total of 39 Lotto jackpots have been won since June 2015, only eight jackpot winners in the Lotto received pay-outs of less than R1-million. Meanwhile, Ithuba has already created 53 millionaire winners across all lottery games since June 2015, making one millionaire a week on average.
The Saturday was all about winning in the lottery as another ticket bought at Cape Town’s Bonteheuwel Post Office in the Western Cape, won the R1.5-million Lotto Plus jackpot, at the same draw. Ithuba has already seen 100 jackpot winners across all lottery games with the Lotto Plus leading after having recorded a total of 43 jackpot winners. More than half of all jackpot winners across all the games have walked away with R1-million-Plus winnings.
