He is one of two LOTTO PLUS 1 winners who each won R29 million from the 24 November LOTTO draw.

The winner says that he is a regular LOTTO and PowerBall player and has been playing for many years. However, he says that when he played his LOTTTO numbers last week for R50, using a QuickPick selection method, he did not imagine that he was just days away from being R29 million richer.

The elderly winner visited the National Lottery offices in the company of his son on Thursday, to finally claim his prize. He expressed both disbelief and gratitude for his new fortune that he refers to as a “blessing in his golden years”.

It seems that this jackpot could not have gone to a more deserving person. This winner is a community leader and has been a pillar of his community for decades. He has been running an old age home in his community since 1980, committed to taking care of the elderly.  He later started another Centre, taking care of children living with disabilities. He has sustained both organisations with the help of funding from different donors, and some of his own money. The winner says that money will go a long way in helping him expand the impact of his organisations. “There’s a lot children living with disabilities that are on the waiting list, waiting to receive help from our centre. We have not had enough money to accommodate them and this has been breaking my heart and giving me sleepless nights. I will use some of my winnings to improve this situation”, said the teary winner.

The winner has been running the NPOs with the help of his children who are fully hands-on in the organisations. His son says that from when he and his siblings where young, both his parents have always taught them the importance of helping others and sharing even the little that you have with them.

The winner received psychological counselling and extensive financial advice organised by ITHUBA, which he attended with his son.

A 68 year old pensioner from Pretoria scooped the R4,9 million LOTTO PLUS 2 jackpot from the 3^rd  November 2018 draw.

The pensioner visited the Ithuba office in Sandton on Friday the 7^th of November in the company of his wife and two children. The family all stay in an RDP house in Pretoria which they have not been able to extend or renovate in any way. Apart from the winner’s pension grant, the family also survives on the son’s income from his job as a taxi driver.

When asked about how he was planning on spending his new fortune, the winner said:  “First of all, I want to help my children improve their lives and be independent. They want to start their own businesses and want start-up homes, I will help them achieve that. My daughter also wants to further her studies and that makes me happy. As for me and my wife, we will not move out of our RDP house, we will just renovate it into a beautiful, well-furnished home. I will finally be able to buy a big plasma TV and a stunning lounge suite where my wife and I can relax peacefully.  I really cannot wait for our lives to get better, I feel like my dignity as the head of the family has been restored”, said the winner.

The winner received trauma counselling and extensive financial advice organised by ITHUBA. “The financial advice really helped me realise that if I use these winnings wisely, I will never be poor again in my life. I intend on sticking to the financial counsel I received — just the terrifying thought of going back to poverty on its own, will keep me motivated”, he concluded.

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.

The latest SPORTSTAKE 13 winner has scored the jackpot of R1 135 259.20! Still in utter disbelief, the 50-year-old from Joubertina in the Eastern Cape said the thought of building a home for his children excited him.

Accompanied by his 19-year-old son to the Ithuba offices, the winner said he still could not believe that at long last, lady luck had favoured him. Spending R8.00 on his winning ticket, the winner said he usually spends an average of R250 a month on POWERBALL and LOTTO but has never won anything from any of the games. He did not expect his luck to change when he started playing SPORTSTAKE 13 a few weeks ago.

“Last month I was curious about how to play SPORTSTAKE 13, so I asked my neighbour to explain the game to me. I started playing the game recently and prefer choosing the PROPICK option, as it matches more games than when I play the manual selection,” he explained.

The father of 7 said that building a home for his children has always been a dream of his as he currently lives with his sister and her children; adding that when the whole family comes to visit around the festive season, the 1 bedroom house gets too crowded.

“I’ve always imagined myself waking up in my own house with all of my children. It has always been a dream of mine to build a decent home and live with all of my children under one roof, now I can finally make that dream a reality.” he said.

Having been out of work since February this year, the excited winner said life has been difficult for him and his family financially. He said he depended on the local contracting company which called him when work was available.

“Although I haven’t told people about my new fortune, most people from my home town already know because of the advertising of where the jackpot was won. We play as a group and everyone who has checked their tickets have confirmed that they didn’t win,” he added.

Reminiscing about the day he found out that he won from the shop where he played, the winner said at first he was confused because he was told to go to the Ithuba offices. He said he was excited but plans to remain humble and continue playing SPORTSTAKE 13.