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Changing the life twice?
 November 8, 2009, 10:59 am (2 years ago)It’s common to think that winning a life-changing lottery jackpot is not going to happen repeatedly to same person. However, this belief was overturned when a South African businessman turned out to be the winner of jackpot twice!
The 34-year-old married customer took home SA Rands 30 million in South Africa’s recently introduced Powerball lottery this week. Seven years ago, this winner won SA Rands 11 million in the Tatta Ma Chance lottery.
SA Lottery officials announced that the winner, who wishes to stay unidentified - traveled to the lottery offices in Johannesburg having confirmed his R7 random choice ticket at a local Limpopo province store, where he found that he had won ‘galactic odds’ to take home the top prize twice.
According to the general statistics, he beat odds of 14 million to one to walk away with his first jackpot, and 24 million to one to collect his 2nd winnings. Officials announced he had revealed he would invest most of the prize for the future of his 4 children, but also wished to spend some on building a charity to assist better life for unfortunate people in Africa.
A lottery spokeswoman told that: “We provided the service to pick him up, but he chose to drive to our headquarters. We couldn’t believe how calm he was.
He gave the image of a man who has money. We were in shock to hear he only spends 100 rand a month on the lottery.’
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