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With only hours to go until the PowerBall and PowerBall Plus draw on Tuesday, 5 March, SA could welcome its newest multi-millionaires. Image: Pixabay

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PowerBall draw: What would you do with £2.5 million?

With only hours to go until the PowerBall and PowerBall Plus draws on Tuesday, 5 March, SA could welcome its newest multi-millionaires.

05-03-24 16:51
Powerball draw jackpot
With only hours to go until the PowerBall and PowerBall Plus draw on Tuesday, 5 March, SA could welcome its newest multi-millionaires. Image: Pixabay

With only hours to go until the PowerBall and PowerBall Plus draws on Tuesday, 5 March, someone in the world could soon be a multi-millionaire!

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There’s never a bad time to become super rich overnight!

Tuesday’s PowerBall jackpot stands at an estimated R61 million (£2.5 million), while the PowerBall Plus draw offers another R5 million (£208 000) bounty.

Buy your tickets now at your nearest participating retailer, on our website by visiting national lottery.co.za using your computer or mobile site, via the National Lottery Mobile App, or participating banks, namely FNB, ABSA, Nedbank, Standard Bank, Capitec, TymeBank and African Bank otherwise dial 1207529# for USSD.

DID YOU KNOW

Winners who win R50 000 and above receive free trauma counselling from professional psychologists and financial advice from accredited financial advisors absolutely free. At the same time, winnings are paid tax-free directly into the winner’s accounts.

Good luck!

The PowerBall and PowerBall Plus draws will take place on Tuesday, 5 March  from 20:58.

POWERBALL

The PowerBall jackpot draw required players to pick five main numbers from 1 to 50 and one ‘PowerBall’ number from 1 to 20 for an entry fee of R5.00 per board.

Draws take place every Tuesday and Friday.

The record prize for any lottery game in South Africa came in the PowerBall when one winner scooped an incredible R232 131 750.69 in the draw held on 19 February 2019.

POWERBALL PLUS

PowerBall Plus is exactly the same as PowerBall but gives players a second chance to win.

When buying a PowerBall ticket, players can pay an extra R2.50 per board to enter the PowerBall Plus draw.

Odds are the same, while prizes are usually slightly lower.

It was introduced on 28 November 2015 by the National Lottery of South Africa.

WHEN DO LOTTERY TICKET SALES CLOSE?

If you are buying tickets from a lottery outlet, they close at 20:30 on the day of a draw

ELIGIBILITY

Players must be 18 years old.

SUMMARY OF LOTTERY GAMES

Monday: Daily Lotto

Tuesday: Daily Lotto + PowerBall and PowerBall Plus

Wednesday: Daily Lotto + Lotto, Lotto Plus 1 and Lotto Plus 2

Thursday: Daily Lotto

Friday: Daily Lotto + PowerBall and PowerBall Plus

Saturday: Daily Lotto + Lotto, Lotto Plus 1 and Lotto Plus 2

Sunday: Daily Lotto

For more details and to verify the winning PowerBall and PowerBall Plus numbers, visit the National Lottery website.

You must always confirm the official winning numbers on the National Lottery website. We do our best to post the results as accurately as possible, but the National Lottery is the only source you can use to 100% verify the results.