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The South African national lotto has got a christmas gift to the lucky ones, this weekend, 28 November 2009, the lotto jackpot is guaranteed to a cool R10 million. This will change somebody’s bank account, and start friendships with the bank managers. While its a norm with the South African national lotto to offer awesome jackpots like once every month, none was expecting this so soon after the R30 million powerball jackpot won last month on the 23rd of October by a Polokwane man.

Other games also this weekend has got awesome jackpots though not guaranteed, sportstake is estimated at R900 000.00 after the mid week rollover, and the Powerball lotto is estimated at R6 Million. To play online you can click here.

Not likely and hard to believe, but it has hit twice to this South African man in Polokwane, seven years ago he won the South African national “lotto” jackpot, about R11 Million, this time has won the lucrative jackpot of the PowerBall’s inaugural jackpot prize of R30-million. The man has chosen to be unonymous like before, he runs a successful business and he plans to venture into property development this time.

The man uses about R100.00 every week on lottery tickets and managed to beat the odds of about 24 million. He is the first South African to win the national lotto twice in a life time, the most times anyone had won the lottery was three – a man from Idaho in the US. This 34 year old man has proved “one day is one day” sa national lotto slogan can be changed to “two days is two days”. Read more here.

Below are the first South African powerball lotto results drawn on the 23rd of October 2009, you can download them or print them for your historic records, for the latest results click here, and for next estimated jackpot click here:

Finally, the long awaited super mind blowing lotto game kicks off today. We have done it again, we are the first online lotto agent to offer Sportstake online, and we are giving you the platform again to win huge on the biggest African lottery. You can now play powerball online.  But before you get blown away with the figures acquaint yourself with the odds and probabilities in the game, (how to play powerball lotto), odds of winning, and remember you must choose five ball numbers from a pool of forty five plus one from a pool of twenty balls to make a total of six to play South African national powerball lotto:

Powerball lotto is most popular in the UK, Australia, Greece, USA and New Zealand and those of you who have tried this game from these countries will know that the prices are gigantic. Taking into account the probability of making it to the first division, rollovers are inevitable and jackpots are likely to sky rocket to above R100 Million. The players must know how to play the game and know that it’s just a game, by the end of the day there will be winners and there will be losers, above all losers are not losers since all the proceeds will go to good causes. The first jackpot is guaranteed at R30 Million and the first sa powerball draw and results will be available on the 23^rd October 2009, 9:30 PM South African time.

From next month, South African national lotto players will be having more options on which lotto game to play. The national lottery operators are introducing the new game called powerball (power ball). Punters has to choose five numbers from the pool of fourty five and one powerball number from the pool of twenty. The cost of one ticket or board will cost R3.50, and there is no powerball plus on this game. The draws will be on Tuesday and Friday, will be launched on the 16th of October with the first draw estimated to be on the 23th. The first estimated jackpots on sa powerball game is said to be R30 million, but we can assure you that this one will be higher than the lotto, lotto plus and sportstake games. Given its trick stutas (the probability of getting one ticket is over 24 million) and the new rule over rollovers we might see us having jackpots beyond the biggest jackpot won in South Africa national lotto before of R40 Million.

All our lotto players you will be informed about the first winner(s)  of the first jackpot soon, as our promise that to play lotto online with us its a pleasure for we will inform you about all the latest news. You can click here to see the new coupon for the new game. To play online click here.

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The youngest South African Lotto winner is facing life in prison. He was Once South Africa’s youngest Lotto jackpot winner with an optimistic future, Jason Canterbury is now looking at a lifetime behind bars.
In a tragic fall from grace, Canterbury, 25, was convicted in the Western Cape High Court on Friday of the 2006 murder of one of his alleged drug runners, Henry “No Rules” Stevens, over R8 000 in missing cash and drugs.
Canterbury’s version was rejected as “false”, as were his attempts to distance himself from the crime.
Testimony from the State witnesses was accepted and they were found to have corroborated one another in identifying Canterbury as the man who gave the orders.
Canterbury, aka “Pang”, grew up in Elsies River on the Cape Flats, but used his R6,7-million winnings in 2003 to buy a house in the nearby middle class neighbourhood of Kuils River.
By 2006, however, it is believed he resorted to running a drug business with the little he had left of his fortune.

One might have been questioning himself or herself about what happens when the lotto rollover is not won towards the special draws, the national lotto operating board has to answer this.

Lotto operator Gidani has informed lotto players – who may be wondering what happens to the roll-over jackpot when it is not won shortly before a guaranteed jackpot – that the money is “absorbed”.
Questions over the rollover first emerged in June after an R8-million lotto jackpot was not won and the following draw was a R10-million guaranteed jackpot which had been advertised prior to the R8m draw.
Some players felt in the event of a rollover, it should have been added to the guaranteed R10m jackpot which in that case would have taken the total to R18m.

In response to questions over the “disappearance” of the roll-over amount, Gidani spokeswoman Thembi Tulwana said, “In the event that a rollover of a Wednesday coincides with a guaranteed jackpot, that roll-over amount is absorbed in the guaranteed jackpot.”
National Lotteries Board spokesman Sershan Naidoo said there was nothing wrong with this as it was an international practice that simply meant “we will guarantee up to that amount.”
“The R10m was advertised before the Wednesday’s jackpot. “All guaranteed jackpots are planned and preparations have to be done way ahead of time.
“In the event that the Wednesday jackpot was won, we still would have had a R10m jackpot,” said Tulwana.
She said in the case of the jackpot on June 24 which was an estimated R8m, the prize payment was R7,2m.

However, there was a rollover which coincided with the guaranteed R10m jackpot. The R7.2m was absorbed.
“The roll-over rule is that the jackpot will roll over until it is won.
“The guaranteed jackpots are always higher than rollovers and the absorption takes into account the minimum estimated prize of the next lotto jackpot which is a minimum of R2,5m for a Saturday draw and a minimum of R1,4m for a midweek draw.
“Of course, the final payment of an estimated jackpot is determined by the number of entries received (lotto tickets bought.”
“For instance, the guaranteed jackpot in question, R10m, was estimated at R12.5m because we anticipated higher participation.
“This guaranteed jackpot eventually paid out R16,8m following six rollovers before it was won,” she said.

CHARITIES displeased with the South African National Lottery Board’s lack of fund disbursement are preparing to take it to court, with the help of the Democratic Alliance. The DA last week revealed that the board responsible for distributing cash to needy entities had not effectively done so. It showed that the board disbursed R948-million of an available R3.3-billion last year. The party has now teamed up with a law firm to offer free legal advice to charities seeking Lotto cash, and rally them to court action. Continue reading “National lotto faces some legal actions” »

The government is planning to make it easier for charities to qualify for lotto money, an official said today. The lotto fund distribution process needed to be sped up, Zodwa Ntuli, the deputy director general of consumer and corporate regulation at the trade and industry ministry said. “There are certain quick fixes we need to make,” she told Sapa.It emerged in Parliament this week that only 28 percent of lottery funds – R948 million out of the available R3.3 billion – had been paid out to beneficiaries in 2009. Continue reading “Lotto Application requirements to be eased….” »

Charities waiting for the national lottery (Lotto) to process or pay out grants could get free legal assistance, the Democratic Alliance said on Monday.

Party spokesperson Patricia Kopane said a law firm had approached them with an offer of free assistance to charity, arts or sports organisations to take the Lotto to court. Continue reading “Free lotto help for charities…” »