{"id":8947,"date":"2013-08-12T09:48:19","date_gmt":"2013-08-12T09:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=8947"},"modified":"2013-08-12T09:56:13","modified_gmt":"2013-08-12T09:56:13","slug":"lottery-winners-post-jackpot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=8947","title":{"rendered":"Lottery winners post jackpot"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"lotto<\/a>It\u2019s one of those questions that everybody has been asked at least once in their life \u2013 what would you do if you won the lottery? For most, it is a mere pipe-dream \u2013 something to fantasise about but nothing more than that, but for a few very lucky people, this fantasy becomes a reality.<\/p>\n

For some the sudden vast swathe of wealth rushing into their pockets brings with it a tide of happiness \u2013 all they have ever wanted, but for others, it can get a little overwhelming. Becoming millions richer in an instant makes it very difficult to keep one\u2019s life the same, and it is no surprise that there are some lotto winners with some incredible stories \u2013 here are a few of the best straight out of South Africa.<\/p>\n

First, a true rags to riches story \u2013 earlier in 2013 a 54-year-old man won R6.5m after taking a chance on a R20 ticket in the January 19th draw. Used to living off just R750 per month, the man suddenly found astronomical wealth right at his feet,\u00a0 literally, as he hid the winning ticket in his shoe to keep it safe before handing it in.<\/p>\n

Those feet, admirably, have stayed firmly on the ground since his big win. He had made his money through odd jobs prior to his win and said he wanted to keep the same lifestyle, devoting the money to his children by relocating them to live with him in Johannesburg so they could attend better schools.<\/p>\n

The same, sadly, cannot be said of Jason Canterbury, who won R6.7m in 2003 at the age of just 18. Jason\u2019s tragic story saw him lose all his money before he was sentenced to 28 years in jail for murder in 2008, having turned to drugs and crime as a way of supporting the lifestyle he had briefly enjoyed after his win.<\/p>\n

Perhaps the most incredible of all the South African lottery tales though, is that of a 38-year-old man who defied odds of 336,000,000-1 to win the top prize not once, but twice.<\/p>\n

The man picked up R30m in November 2009, less than 10 years after an R11m win, stunning lottery chiefs.\u00a0 “I have no idea what his secret is. He’s just a lucky bloke,\u201d said Thembi Tulwana, spokesman for South Africa’s Lottery operator Gidani.<\/p>\n

Like our first case, this man planned to invest the majority of his winning in the futures of his children, so perhaps it is they, not he himself, who are truly lucky ones.<\/p>\n

With so many new ways to win big at the lotto popping up each day, and the ever-increasing prevalence of online lotteries, there are now more chances than ever to win big like these people did. Go online and\u00a0find lotto results here<\/a>\u00a0at the click of a button to see if you could be joining them \u2013 you never know \u2013 you might even win twice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s one of those questions that everybody has been asked at least once in their life \u2013 what would you do if you won the lottery? For most, it is a mere pipe-dream \u2013 something to fantasise about but nothing more than that, but for a few very lucky people, this fantasy becomes a reality. … Continue reading “Lottery winners post jackpot”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8965,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[5030,5029,5027,5028],"class_list":["post-8947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-gidani","tag-jason-canterbury","tag-lottery","tag-winning"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/lotto-logo.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8947"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8966,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8947\/revisions\/8966"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}