When is the SA Lotto draw?

Wednesday and Saturday, in the evening. Every result on this page carries its own SAST draw time, taken in South African time rather than UTC, because these are all evening draws and a UTC date puts them on the wrong day.

How many numbers does SA Lotto draw?

6 from 1 to 52, plus a bonus ball. Every row is checked against that shape before it is stored and anything that does not match is rejected rather than published.

Where do these results come from?

From the lottery operator backend that supplies South African betting platforms, which sits one step closer to the draw than a results website copying another results website.

Are these results official?

They come from an operator settlement feed, not from Ithuba. That feed is what real money is settled against, so it is reliable, but this desk does not yet check it against Ithuba's own published result and therefore stores every row as unverified. For a prize claim, always check the official Ithuba result.

Can I bet on SA Lotto instead of buying a ticket?

Yes. South African bookmakers offer it as a Lucky Numbers bet, a fixed-odds bet on the outcome of the draw rather than an entry into it. You are betting with the bookmaker and the payout is the bookmaker's to set, which is why it can differ from the lottery prize.

Lotto results

The SA Lotto results on this page carry the bonus ball as well as the six main numbers, with Lotto Plus 1 from the same draw underneath so a single slip can be checked in one place.

6 from 52 plus a bonus ball · drawn Wednesday and Saturday

Latest SA Lotto result

Wednesday, 2 September 2026 · 20:56 SAST

91521243039 34

The highlighted ball is the bonus.

SA Lotto Plus 1 · same draw, Wednesday, 2 September 2026

51012222842 23

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How this page gets its numbers

SA Lotto draws six numbers from 52 plus a bonus ball, on Wednesday and Saturday evenings. The bonus is drawn from the remaining balls, so it can never repeat one of the six, and this desk takes it by position from the feed rather than by sorting, which is how it gets confused elsewhere.

The results are read from the lottery operator backend that supplies South African betting platforms. Every row is checked against the game's shape before it is stored, and the calendar date is taken in South African time rather than UTC, which matters here because every one of these draws is an evening draw.

Two limits, stated rather than hidden. There is no independent second source wired in yet, so these rows are single-sourced and stored unverified; Ithuba publishes the official result and checking against it is the next job. And the feed has no history endpoint, so this archive starts on Tuesday, 1 September 2026 and grows forward. It holds 1 SA Lotto draw today, against about 260 needed before a hot-numbers table would mean anything, which is why there is not one on this page.

Betting SA Lotto in South Africa

There are two different things people mean by playing SA Lotto. Buying a ticket from Ithuba enters you into the draw and pays the advertised jackpot. Betting it with a licensed bookmaker as a Lucky Numbers bet does not enter you into anything: the bookmaker takes a fixed-odds bet on the outcome and pays its own published multiple, win or lose, whatever the lottery pays.

Both are legal and they are not the same product. This desk covers the second one, and has not yet measured what South African bookmakers pay on it, so it quotes no multiple here.

Where to bet the draws

SA Lotto questions

When is the SA Lotto draw?: Wednesday and Saturday, in the evening. Every result on this page carries its own SAST draw time, taken in South African time rather than UTC, because these are all evening draws and a UTC date puts them on the wrong day.
How many numbers does SA Lotto draw?: 6 from 1 to 52, plus a bonus ball. Every row is checked against that shape before it is stored and anything that does not match is rejected rather than published.
Where do these results come from?: From the lottery operator backend that supplies South African betting platforms, which sits one step closer to the draw than a results website copying another results website.
Are these results official?: They come from an operator settlement feed, not from Ithuba. That feed is what real money is settled against, so it is reliable, but this desk does not yet check it against Ithuba's own published result and therefore stores every row as unverified. For a prize claim, always check the official Ithuba result.
Can I bet on SA Lotto instead of buying a ticket?: Yes. South African bookmakers offer it as a Lucky Numbers bet, a fixed-odds bet on the outcome of the draw rather than an entry into it. You are betting with the bookmaker and the payout is the bookmaker's to set, which is why it can differ from the lottery prize.