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The National Lottery was introduced to South Africa on 11 March 2000. At the time it was run by Uthingo. [citation needed]After a marketing effort that aimed to reach 80 percent of South African homes directly [5] more than 800,000 tickets were sold in the first day of availability [6] Nearly R70 million worth of tickets were sold in the first three weeks of operation.
South Africa: Daily Lotto (36 Numbers; Daily) United Kingdom Thunderball (39 Numbers + 1 out of 14 bonus balls; Every Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday) See also
A lottery is a form of gambling which involves selling numbered tickets and giving prizes to the holders of numbers drawn at random. Lotteries are outlawed by some governments, while others endorse it to the extent of organizing their own national (state) lottery.
Uthingo lost the bid to renew its license as the lottery operator to Gidani after a legal battle and negotiations with the Ministry of Trade and Industry. During that period (March to October 2007) the South African National Lottery was suspended and the first Lotto draw after Gidani took over from Uthingo was on 13 October 2007.
The Gidani consortium was the operator of the South African National Lottery, the most popular form of gambling in South Africa by transaction volume and value.. Gidani was selected to take over operation of the lottery after the seven-year contract of Uthingo, the first operator, expired on 31 March 2007. [1]
The lottery turned 40 on January 3, 2011, and by then the lottery had been drawn 2,126 times. [11] Since then, there has been one lottery draw every week. Lottery game time usually ends on Saturday at 9:45 p.m., and the draw is usually held on Saturday at 10:15 p.m. Large public holidays on Saturdays may postpone the draw to Sunday.
Independent Online, popularly known as IOL, is a news website based in South Africa that serves the online versions of a number of South African newspapers, including The Star, Cape Times, Cape Argus, Weekend Argus, The Mercury, Sunday Tribune, The Independent on Saturday, and The Sunday Independent.
Lotto There are three Lotto draws weekly, occurring on Monday, Wednesday and Saturday evenings. Although the three are marketed identically by NSW Lotteries, the Saturday Lotto draw is a national lottery run by Tatts Group Limited and syndicated by NSW Lotteries. It is known elsewhere in Australia as Tattslotto or Gold Lotto.