Wait for the full page to load before clicking on a link. Money that should have been spent on food, or to build stable families, was going on gambling, and gambling parents were leaving their children without care, he said. The top prize in the national lottery, with R2.50 tickets, rolls over each week if it is not won, sometimes rising to R15m or more.
Most people buy multiple tickets.
That is more than those who drink. If I win, I can buy mealie-meal and potatoes. Gambling is out of control. Some help is at hand. South Africans directed more than one percent of their disposable income to gambling last year, said Azar Jammine, chief economist of the private consultancy Econometrix.