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Suicide in SA increasing

Suicide is generally thought to be mainly a female issue but, according to SADAG and Prof Schlebusch, it is actually higher among males than females. "We are getting more and more calls from men who are depressed and stressed, often because of financial issues," says SADAG's Cassey Chambers.  Men often show their stress by working too hard, drinking and engaging in extra-marital affairs - they display aggression rather than depression. Five times more men commit suicide than women; they generally use more lethal forms of suicide, like shooting and hanging.

There has been a shift in suicidal behaviour from the elderly to younger people in South Africa. The average age for suicide is around 35 and almost one third of all non-fatal suicidal behaviours involves adolescents. SADAG's school-based teen suicide prevention programme 'Suicide Shouldn't be a Secret' - funded by Lotto - aims to reduce the high incidence of teen suicide in South Africa through education and awareness.

SADAG helps suicidal teens "I figured life was never going to get better and was really thinking about killing myself. I didn't tell anyone how I felt because I was scared they would laugh or shout at me. I guess SADAG came just in time for me!

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The establishment of South African Lotto goes back in the year 2000 and is considered as the most known type of gambling in the country South Africa. Recently in the year 2007, it has been stated and reported that the total number of transactions that South African Lotto earns reaches up to five million.

It was found that the people who support the South African Lotto are the ones who do not have a stable and permanent job, or just jobless. Out of the total number of those who are playing lottery, 27% of them are unemployed, while 43% are the ones who have a job but earn less than the minimum wage rate, which is 2000 rand a month. Due to some unexplainable reasons, after the legalization of the lottery, many people were able to find decent and stable jobs. Just 3 years ago, in 2006, researchers found out that 82% of the entire population in South Africa is joining the lottery at least once a week. And out of this percentage, 53% of them are not engaging themselves in other types of gambling other than lottery. It was also found out that a person spends at least 81 rand on the average with just playing the lottery.

The establishment of the South African Lotto is not totally bad for the country nor for its people because part of the profit that some companies earn goes to some charitable institutions, and only 50% of the total profit is spent as prize money for the winners of the lotteries.

Some people are really curious as to how they will have a bigger chance in winning the total jackpot prize money. Well, there are several strategies that people have already depended on like for instance, picking six random numbers. It is a given fact that many people are doing this when they join in a South African Lotto and some have testified that this method has actually won them a certain amount in the previous incidents that they have bet their money. On the other hand, other people are also suggesting another method which has also worked for them has well. This method is by choosing numbers which are somewhat meaningful to you and would actually make you believe that you will when the jackpot prize when you use the specific numbers. Many will also testify to this method because they have already won a certain amount as well by using this strategy.

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