SA Lottery : Learn more about the South african lottery
The good old SA lottery has been creating
winners for years now although it did start late when compared
to national lotteries being run in other western countries. I
guess we should call it then the "Good Old" but one cant help
but feel that there is a love hate relationship between the SA
lottery and the punters that buy the tickets. How many times
have you been sitting in a cue in PicknPay when someone pipes up
saying "Im gonna win the lottery this weekend" or "You gotta be
in it to win it, you better just buy one ticket".
Im sure
like us, you have heard it all when it comes the SA lotteries
and the lottery board. As recently as June this year the company
that administers the SA lottery was replaced by a newcomer
called " ITHUBA Holdings Proprietary Limited (RF)". This entity
claims to want to achieve the following, and I quote: " ITHUBA
will re-invigorate the National Lottery through optimising the
consumer experience, restoring faith and trust in the National
Lottery, and showcasing its positive social contribution to our
society". Mr Rob Davies, the Minister of Trade and Industry has
apparently committed himself and the entire department to fully
implement the change of licensee will be handled with no issues.
Good luck to ITHUBA and lets hope you can deliver on your stated
goals. Nothing should really change in terms of being a customer
although we would like to see them allow punters to purchase SA
lottery tickets online.
For those readers that don’t know, The SA lottery consists of
4 main draws, these include: The Lotto, Lotto Plus, Powerball
Jackpot and SportStake.
The Lotto
The Lotto is the traditional lottery game played by
most players in SA. You can play this game using the
quick pick option where the SA lottery system will
randomly choose your 6 numbers. Alternatively, you can
manually choose your own 6 numbers out of a possible 1
to 49. Typically this would be done at an offline
kiosk so simply take your Lotto Betslip and use a pen
or pencil to mark your 6 numbers. Take your betslip to
the cashier at the shop and submit the skip so he/she
can process your ticket for you. Make sure to write
your name and contact number on the back of the ticket
and take your receipt and store it in a safe place and
look online for the results or tune in live to SABC 2
every Wednesday and Saturdays at 9PM to watch the live
draws.
You can play as many lines as you want when playing
this SA lottery game. A single line at the Lotto
costs just R3.50 including VAT. Note that some
sites out there sell tickets online and this
price might be about 20-50% higher. The main reason
for this is these sites are actually just courier
services, they go and buy the tickets for you and
they take a commission on the ticket price plus a
percentage of the winnings they claim.
Lotto Plus – The LOTTO Plus
game is the exact same game as the standard
LOTTO however with one additional number and an
extra jackpot should you get the chosen number.
Powerball Jackpot
The Powerball Jackpot is slightly
different to the standard lotto game.
Players choose 5 numbers from 1 to 45
and 1 extra number is also chosen from
1 to 20. The extra number is also an
additional jackpot amount hence the
name Powerball Jackpot. Players can
choose multiple draws which allows them
to play the same numbers over multiple
draws that are or will be taking place.
A single Power Ball ticket costs R3.50
Inc VAT. Once you have purchased your
ticket make sure to store it safely and
watch the live draw Power Ball draw
taking place on Etv every Tuesday and
Friday’s at 9PM.
SportStake
This is one of the more recent
games launched by the SA
lottery. It cleverly combines
live sporting results and
fixtures together with a
lottery format. You play by
predicting outcomes of 12
predetermined match fixtures
drawn from South African,
English and other identified
professional soccer games and
fixtures. As with normal
sports betting, you take your
betslip and you choose from 3
possible results: 1) For home
win, 2) For a draw, and 3) For
a home loss (Away win). To
confirm a valid bet, it must
consist of one selection per
each 12 fixtures. The min
price per a bet is R1.00
including VAT and a max bet
per a fixture is R1,000. Note
that there is no quickpick or
manual number selection
option, the results of the
draw are based on what you
predicted in those 12
fixtures.
SA Lottery Results
The
South African
National lottery
results are
available via a
number of channels
which include web,
TV and Mobile and
Print. Yebocasino
also provide the
latest results
right here
available on their
website. Basically,
in all major
distribution
formats. Just a
piece of useless
information, the
term "SA Lottery
results" in Google
generates a huge
volume of searches
every day. The
entity responsible
for syndicating the
auditing these
results are the
lottery license
holder and their
supposedly
independent
accounting firm of
auditors. One of
the best ways to
get your lottery
results would be to
download a mobile
app or sign up to a
mailing list that
sends you the
latest lotto
results. We found
he mobile app most
usefull, you can
set schedules and
decide when and how
often you want to e
updated with the
latest lotto
results.