Survivor South Africa

Despite Operation Destiny falling apart, Chappies and Santoni were prepared to use the Tribal Council Pass and Hidden Immunity Idol at the next Tribal Council to get revenge for Anesu. The remaining Vuna majority had figured Santoni managed to find the idol during her stint on Immunity Island.

After surviving the Tied Destinies twist, Tyson felt that he was in control of Osindile, with Kiran and Wardah as his right and left hand. Meanwhile, Anesu and Chappies were finally ready to blindside Tyson with Santoni as the Destiny Three against the Vuna majority.

After voting out Shaun, Tyson felt that Kiran and himself were taking control over Osindile. However, Anesu was developing a plan to betray her Vuna alliance, as the men and Wardah had been keeping information about the Immunity Island Idol away from her. Bouncing ideas off Amy and Chappies, the Zamba minority saw a lifeline in Anesu.

Nicole broke into tears after Marisha's blindside, with the Vuna alliance celebrating their move gaining majority in the Osindile tribe. Shaun and Santoni locked heads when he figured out that she played double agent to blindside the Zamba alliance. This left Santoni feeling alienated, knowing she doesn't like her Vuna alliance, and didn't throw her vote like Anesu did to save face with the Zamba alliance. She spent the next morning trying to inform Nicole and Amy that Anesu was also involved in Marisha's blindside, also playing double agent with the Zamba alliance.

Early on Day 19, Marisha and Renier found the Vuna tribe's hidden immunity idol, promising to use it for the original Zamba alliance come merge. A few hours later, the tribes merged to form the Osindile tribe, and celebrated with a merge feast. Chappies let slip that the Vuna tribe had received videos from their loved ones on a Reward, to the displeasure of Shaun and the last Vuna tribe, and proceeded to look for an idol clue in front of everyone.

With Dino voted out, tensions between Anela and Wardah continued to build with the numbers shifting in her advantage after the second tribe shuffle. After returning from Immunity Island, Anela lied that he won an extra vote for the first Tribal Council after merge. Qieän's behaviour around the new Zamba came across as selfish to the Vuna majority, eating food she had previously won in rewards openly in front of the tribe. Santoni felt uncomfortable with the new majority, knowing it would protect her only until the merge. At Vuna, Renier took the time to build bonds with Chappies, and reconnected with Amy and the Zamba women.

Returning from the Double Tribal Council, the Zamba tribe were left annoyed with the Vuna tribe's behaviour eating during their Tribal Council. Meanwhile Wardah felt blindsided again by another ally's removal from the game. Tyson felt alienated by the Zamba majority having targeted him, forcing an idol play.

Prior to the last Tribal Council, Thoriso approached Anesu and the original Vuna members about using their hidden immunity idol note, to earn some trust with the original Zamba 6 on Vuna. Anesu agreed in order for her allies to blindside the Zamba majority.

The outsider Vuna members on Zamba were happy with their decision to vote out Mike, to Carla and Wardah's misfortune. Day 9 saw Vuna's tribe raid of Zamba occur, with Amy having to reveal that it was her loss at Immunity Island that caused it to happen. During this, Anesu tried to reconnect with Paul and Chappies about Mike's elimination.

Carla felt pleased orchestrating Pinty's blindside, but noticed that the men were praising Mike for the move.

After being left out of Jason's blindside, Shaun tried to work his way in with the men of Zamba, while Renier and Amy worked to solidify their secret duo. Meanwhile, unity over at Vuna was a bit wobbly with Carla getting annoyed with Pinty's commanding presence around camp.

Arriving in the Wild Coast, the castaways took part in a random draw to select the two tribes, Vuna and Zamba.

As Manumalo returned to camp, Steffi told the tribe she accidentally voted for Cobus when the plan was to either vote Jacques out with the idol or flush it out of the game. While the tribe congratulated Jacques for his bold move, he openly declared that he would use his idol to take out the biggest player left if the rest of the tribe targeted him at the next Tribal Council, and the others reacted in shock and disgust by the language he used.

Despite being included in the vote for Danté, Cobus and Jacques were frustrated that the Spit-Shake alliance were leaving them out of the loop, while Steffi was frustrated that Jacques didn't fall for the Amigos' pressure to flush out his idol. Trust within the Spit-Shake alliance left Cobus, Jacques, and even Nicole feeling vulnerable with how the last two Tribal Councils went.

While Danté was left frustrated with the original Laumei members in not voting out Rob, Jacques and Cobus confronted Rob about leaving them out of Seipei's blindside. The morning after, knowing that the others were not listening to him, Danté resigned himself to saving his strength for the immunity challenge.

While Rob and Seipei's plan to eliminate Geoffrey went down perfectly, Mmaba was left distraught with Mike's betrayal of their Day 1 alliance from the original Laumei tribe. Seipei's social game throughout the camp was becoming more apparent to Laetitia and Rob, with the latter learning that Seipei intended to get rid of the other women in the Amigo alliance after the Spit-Shake alliance takes out Danté and Laetitia.

Despite the close vote at Tribal Council, Geoffrey was in good spirits about his allegiances in the new Manumalo, while Rob was glad that the Spit-Shake Seven alliance had yet to be discovered. However, both Geoffrey and Nicole started to notice how allies were running towards Rob for strategic advice around camp.

After Tribal Council, Danté and Meryl argued with Nicole over Nathan's blindside and the plot to flush Meryl's idol. The next morning, the 13 remaining players were merged into a single tribe, Manumalo. Rob was stunned to see that Sa'ula had voted out Nathan. At the merge feast, Geoffrey took note of Danté and Meryl's strategizing, while Nicole tried to explain her betrayal to the remaining Amigos.

Danté's frustration with the original Laumei members' lack of contribution at camp was beginning to create animosity in Sa'ula. Nathan decided to capitalize on the tension to shift any attention on him and Nicole, and to solidify a partnership with Geoffrey and Mmaba in a potential merge.

Day 15 started with treemail suggesting a tribe shuffle or merge. The Band of Misfits decided that whatever happened, no one else must know about the Laumei idol. Standing at the reward challenge, the players were tasked with picking between 15 bowls of paint, indicating their new tribe colours

After the successful blindside of Felix, Jacques revealed to the rest of Laumei that he had both the Laumei idol and the merge vote advantage. The four bonded and formed an alliance dubbed the Band of Misfits. Cobus and Steffi were concerned about Nathan's desire to remain in the game after trying to throw the previous immunity challenge, while Danté stole Ta'alo's flint to weaken Rob's standing among the tribe.

Despite being on the bottom of the new Laumei, Durão started to bond with Jacques as a means of moving forward, while Felix expressed frustration about being forced to work with Jacques and Tania to survive the new Laumei.

After his blunder with the idol at Tribal Council, Jacques felt that he had completely burnt his game with the Ta'alo tribe, yet he chose to lie about how he found the idol by claiming that he got a clue during the first reward challenge. The men at Ta'alo were confounded by Jacques' idol reveal and play. Jacques' wishes for a tribe swap were granted that morning, with the tribes reshuffling into three tribes of six.

In awe of their sudden blindside of Paul, the Amigos officially brought Seipei into the alliance, but the relief was short-lived when it was discovered that Paul had possession of the tribe's flint as he left the game. This was yet another kick to Sa'ula's morale in desperate need of a challenge win.

Paul approached Nicole after Sa'ula's first Tribal Council with concerns about a sub-alliance forming within the Amigos, suggesting that Nicole, Steffi, and himself align first. Cobus shared his idol clue with Jacques in the early morning, and the two started looking by their tribe's well. Jacques found the hidden immunity idol from under Cobus' nose and hid it with his secret advantage. Meanwhile Ta'alo's patience with Tania was wearing thin, as Felix and Tania clashed during the rain for space in the shelter. Rocco tried to lead the Laumei men to consider voting out Mmaba at the first opportunity, while Mike and Geoffrey initially targeted Laetitia for her age. However, once they noticed that Rocco was defending Laetitia, Mike rallied Geoffrey, Mmaba, and Rose-Lee against Rocco.

The three tribes were tasked to designate a tribe leader. Cobus, Paul, and Rocco were chosen for Ta'alo, Sa'ula, and Laumei respectively. The leaders had to pick their tribe's weakest player (Jacques, Seipei, and Laetitia were respectively chosen). However, the three leaders were informed they were being exiled to the Island of Secrets for the first night of the game immediately, while their tribe's weakest players were assigned to crucial roles for the reward challenge. Once at the Island of Secrets, the three leaders were given tribal dilemmas: a clue to a hidden immunity idol at their camps, or flint. While Rocco was the only one to choose flint for his tribe, he dug through Paul's jeans to have a look at the hidden immunity idol clue when he was alone.

Stunned by Toni's parting words, Werner and Jeanne laughed at the perception that they were running the show on Araw, given that Katinka was the one who gave the orders to vote out Toni at the last Tribal Council. Using Katinka's inability to keep a secret about her alliances' goals, PK tried to stir up camp life by informing Tom of the final 3 deal Tom has with Werner and Katinka.

The previous Tribal Council revealed to Werner and the majority alliance that Toni had finally realized that the original Mindanao alliance is dead, and that her days are numbered without flipping people from the majority. However, the alliance still wanted Toni and PK out, with Tom as a back-up plan. Annalize was threatened by Jeanne's performances at Tribal Council despite her lack of strategic gameplay.

Furious after finding out that the majority alliance wanted to take out PK, Toni blew up on Werner aligning himself with weaker players like Katinka, who had given PK enough information that he was the target for the vote, instead of his original alliance with her. The women started to distance themselves from Toni as her emotional backlash was getting to young Katinka's nerves.

The Mindanao alliance comforted a crying Katinka, who received votes from the Visayas camp except for Tom. While the women supported her, PK rationalized why the Visayas alliance had voted the way they did.

A depleted and exhausted PK and Toni on Mindanao found out on the morning of Day 22 that they had made it to the merge, alongside Visayas and Luzon. Gathered to a merge feast and a new tribe beach, the final 10 formed the merge tribe of Araw. Straight off the bat, Vusi and Werner approached each other about a potential alliance to remove Tom, while PK was adamant on flipping on the original Mindanao to take out Jeanne first and Tom second, to Toni's annoyance. Meanwhile, the women and Werner of original Mindanao had their sights set on Vusi due to his challenge performances.

After Tevin's blindside, Mindanao felt certain that they had flipped the game away from original tribal lines before the merge had even began. Werner had resigned himself to sticking with the women at Luzon to the end of the game, sticking to a social approach at camp. Jeanne and the women considered Werner as their shield to get to the end. Katinka started to step up in the strategic discussions around camp, and approaching Werner and Annalize about taking out Jeanne if push comes to shove. Visayas had depleted their food supply and were desperate for reward.

After the surprise shuffle vote at Tribal Council, Annalize and Josie both felt nothing had changed as being the only original Luzon on each tribe, though both Luzon and Mindanao were now openly planning for the eventual merge. With Toni moving back to Mindanao, Werner grew paranoid about his position in Luzon. Jeanne openly plotting with Annalize made Werner consider flipping to original Luzon once the merge occurred. At Mindanao, Tevin felt Josie's intellect and beauty would be a distraction for him, and that he'd need to get rid of her before it would be too late.

The morning of Day 13 started with Chané decided that she needed to step away from Tom, after he foolishly played their idol on himself after Murishca had resigned herself from the game. She approached Palesa and Vusi to inform them she was done following Tom. At Mindanao, the tribe's frustration with Marthunis' erratic behaviour was reaching a breaking point, with Marthunis himself noticing he was backing himself into a corner he couldn't get out of.

The morning after Tribal Council, Josie resolved herself to continue looking for the idol on the new Luzon beach, feeling the pressure of being the last original Luzon member in the tribe. While over at Mindanao, Marthunis confided to PK that he was considering voting for Tevin at the next Tribal Council, causing PK and Tevin to sit him down and reign him back into their alliance of three. Tensions at Visayas between Tom and Palesa were building as both of them were trying to sway Murishca to side with their alliance.

After Tribal Council, Marthunis' fallout had put Werner, Tevin, and Toni on edge with the tantrum he threw, despite plans being made that they were pretending that Marthunis was on the outs, while Jeanne was still unaware of how close she was to being voted out instead of Stacey-Lee. The morning of Day 9 saw the tribes being redistributed from two to three, introducing a new yellow tribe called Visayas, before the reward challenge. Palesa claimed a clue to a hidden immunity idol during the tribe shuffle.

After Neil's blindside, Tom furiously told off Palesa, Josie, Vusi and Ace when they celebrated by the campfire. The morning after, Tom expressed his desire to get rid of Ace for flipping on the Big 5 alliance as soon as possible. At Mindanao, PK's paranoia of an all-woman's alliance led by Jeanne and Stacey-Lee was getting on the nerves of Tevin, leaving the two women feeling on the bottom when they felt that Marthunis should there instead.

In low spirits after nearly being eliminated at Tribal Council the previous night, Tom sought to solidify his position with the voting block of Ace, Annalize, Chané and Neil, all the while proving to his tribe that he could make fire by eventually starting the tribe's fire. Over at Mindanao, the mood of the camp was that Marthunis was the primary target if they went to Tribal Council to keep tribal morale up.

Eighteen castaways were marooned in the Philippines and split into their tribes on a Bangka. Nico immediately introduced the first reward challenge of the season to the two tribes, Luzon (Red) and Mindanao (Blue).

Altaaf was stunned that some of his alliance members turned on Moyra, while Shane celebrated staying in the game. However, he and Sivu agreed that they needed to make big moves instead of trusting others to make them so that they would stay in the game. Sivu sought to eliminate Zavion and Graham next. Zavion likewise targeted Shane, who considered bringing in Altaaf to make a move.

Zavion disclosed to Shane that Vel and Buhle would likely be the next targets by the majority; Graham aligned with Zavion and Shane, planning to bring in Sivu and David. Graham worried about the possible four-person alliance of Vel, Buhle, Altaaf, and Moyra bringing in Sivu to take control.

After his closest ally was eliminated, Shane stated his embarrassment over playing with the tribemates he was playing with, calling them "children". He was especially disgusted with David, and plotted to sabotage his personal belongings just to get back at him. Shane proceeded to verbally accost David for going against him. Meanwhile, Graham pulled Altaaf aside with a plan to blindside Solly or Buhle to take control of the game. Shane attempted to sway Altaaf to his side. Sivu set up a cricket game for the tribe to bond over.

The next morning, Shane buried one of his idols by the water well. Zavion contemplated between voting out Marian or David, while Sivu told Solly about the stolen idol, causing Solly to distrust Shane and Marian.

Reduced to a tribe of four, Utara expressed concern of how the merge will play out with the seven-strong Selatan. Shane hoped that sending Stephen home before the merge would be enough of an olive branch to Buhle to reunite the Utara tribe with David as their number for a majority.

Marian continued to privately taunt Stephen over his claim that he had nothing to do with Gena’s idol being stolen by the rest of the original Utara.

David thanked the rest of the Utara tribe for keeping him in the game before Shane told him to keep the perception that he was on the outs. Sonette felt paranoid that she would be targeted for elimination before David due to her perceived weakness in challenges.

A rainstorm rolled into both camps, and on Utara, Sonette was injured by a falling beam from the shelter. Solly was infuriated by Shane’s careless construction of the shelter from earlier, which he felt led to the accident.

After voting off their biggest provider in Zan, Utara’s morale was down; meanwhile, Selatan’s mood was better, as the tribe bonded over a yoga session.

After their first Tribal Council, Buhle came clean to the entire tribe about her falling out with Sonette involving the hidden immunity idol. Selatan shared some sorely needed unity after avoiding Tribal Council for the first time.

After what came across as a surprise split vote for Philip the night before, he vowed to do whatever he could to improve his position in the Selatan tribe. His main focus was to prove his own worth around camp in comparison to David, the tribe's outcast.

Returning from Tribal Council, Zavion lashed out at the rest of the tribe for voting out his closest ally, Ashleigh. Moyra and Gena explained that his and Marsha's gameplay forced a "Rugrats Alliance" to form to counter his own.

After the first immunity challenge, Utara celebrated their victory with Mark highlighting Solly's efforts in the challenge. Meanwhile, Corné advised Selatan to not give up and vote for the weakest tribe member at the first Tribal Council.

The twenty civilian castaways were marooned on a raft off an island in the South China Sea. They were pulled onto a boat with supplies, where Nico instructed them to take the supplies onto their raft and reach the shore. Team captains Corné Krige and Mark Fish were awaiting the castaways' arrival. The team captains selected tribes by school yard pick, forming the tribes, Selatan (Krige) and Utara (Fish). Nico explained to the castaways that both Corné and Mark would partake in all challenges and Tribal Councils, but they won't be able to vote until the very end for the winner, alongside the jury.

The previous Raituhn alliance was left in ruins with Malusi's exit the previous night. Sean and Alison saw that this was their time to strike at staying in the game. Hykie and Bonnie felt that it was time for Tejan to pay for his pre-merge betrayals from Raituhn, and Tejan stopped talking to Hykie.

Early in the morning of Day 18, Sean reflected on what was said in Tribal Council the night before about Malusi mentioning that last night's vote was extremely crucial for him. He noticed that Tejan took notice to what his alliance partner said, which let Sean know that there were weak links in the Raituhn 5. MXO, Sean and Alison all started to persuade Malusi into flipping over to side with the former Goma castaways, though all they could manage was to place more doubt on his mind.

After the double Tribal Council, Malusi openly confronted the tribe about a lack of unity in the vote. He received an apparently random vote from Bonnie, when the rest of the tribe picked off Harry. Bonnie admitted that she voted for Malusi, leaving him rattled and doubtful about the impending merge. At Goma, Sean noted how, at this situation, Raituhn can pick off the remaining four Goma members off one by one at the merge, to Alison's frustration.

After Tribal Council, Vanessa explained her frustration with the group about her situation. The atmosphere around Goma wasn't great especially for outsiders Vanessa and Roxy, who felt betrayed by Simon and the collapse of their alliance when Jacques quit. At Raituhn, Tejan attempted to confirm with Bonnie and Hykie that the strongest players unite and pick off weak players before they get too far into the game.

After Tribal Council, Hykie took Tejan aside and expressed his anger about the second blindside that Tejan pulled over the Raituhn Celebs. Tejan explained to him that he needed to get rid of Carmel to destroy any lingering division of Plebs vs. Celebs within their tribe. Day 12 came along with Malusi being on the receiving end of Hykie's frustration from the night before. Malusi also confirmed with the actor that the move was necessary to an extent. Over at Goma, morale was down as Jacques was about to quit. Vanessa and Roxy were especially worried, because their alliance would be down to two when the young musician walked. MXO indicated that he needs to align himself with the Plebs on Goma if he is to stay in the game.

Jacques on Goma in the early hours of the morning on Day 10 started to express feelings of withdrawing from the game, causing friction with Pleb Sindi, who thought it was a waste of time where someone else could have wanted the opportunity in playing Survivor. Back at Raituhn, the Celebs were not relieved after the previous night's vote of Tasleem.

The Celebs from Raituhn were furious over the deceit of Tsepho's removal from the game. Bonnie and Carmel felt blindsided by Tejan, whom they had thought up until then was aligning himself with the Celebs in Raituhn.

Returning from Tribal Council, Goma appeared determined to turn their unfortunate challenge run as soon as possible. The next morning, the entire tribe expressed how MXO's naive approach to the game would be useful for both alliances. Over at Raituhn, Tejan, Malusi and Harry discussed how fellow Pleb Tasleem holding the Black Cowrie would affect them at Tribal Council. Harry nominated himself to divert the celebrities' attention to him, so that a 5-5 tie between Tasleem and a celeb would not occur.

The Celebs and Plebs finally met each other on Day 4, at the second reward challenge. Philicity received a blue buff due to Lukhanyo's elimination the night before. The castaways were introduced to their new tribe names, Raituhn (Yellow) and Goma (Blue). After a grueling reward challenge, the two tribes partook in the Black Cowrie challenge.

The game began with the Celebrity and the Pleb castaways banished to their respective islands by Maldivian officials. There were 9 Celebrities and 10 Plebs, both groups unaware of the other's existence in the game. Settling into the conditions on their islands, the Celebrities and the Plebs were taken to reward and immunity challenges respectively, still unaware of the other challenge or group partaking in the game.

The question becomes: if Gys does go home, what are they going to eat? In the meantime, Kaseran is catching crabs, while ProVerb will try his hand at fishing.

Kaseran’s not too heart broken that Louw is gone. It allows him to step up. This doesn’t sit too well with ProVerb, who views his attitude as if he’s trying to take over.

There are still two tribes, and it does not seem as if Chibudu will be doing anything to change it. It’s rare we see any tribe get Pagonged, so there’s always a chance. But if they just roll over, they may as well just leave now.

Nico is passing out parchments. Everybody must rate everybody else on a scale of 1-10. Afterward, they will get on stumps based on how they are ranked.

Each tribe must select an ambassador to capture an opposing tribemate, who will be part of their tribe from that point forward. That person will be granted immunity for the next tribal council. They will also be able to obtain an item of value from the other team.

Timbila finds it awkward to have gotten rid of someone else other than Darren. They all say they’re mad at him because of what he said at tribal council. As if they liked him before.

Gys feels threatened by Hein, who then decides to go off on his own to catch them some fish. He manages to catch 5 fish for them for breakfast. All of a sudden, their treatment of him becomes much more warm.

Not that anybody liked him before, but the talk of Craig being useless is resurfacing. In his effort to prove he’s useful, he breaks their hook while fishing.

Following a terrible start in Survivor South Africa: Santa Carolina Episode 1, Chibudu is already two people down. First, Christina lasted one whole night before deciding it was too hard, so she made up a lame excuse and quit. Then, following his challenge injury, Garth was voted out because he was barely able to walk. To make matters worse, they seem to have their next in line already picked out, having decided their “leader” Craig is useless.

This season we head to Santa Carolina, an island off the coast of Mozambique in East Africa that was also called Paradise Island, now a deserted paradise.

Danielle's switch at the previous Tribal Council surprised Aguila when she arrived at their camp on Day 13, where she explained that Sanele's evacuation led to her arrival. Her swap sparked life in Brigitte's game, as she and the tribe were getting alienated by Nico's personality around camp. Rana hoped that Danielle left with an understanding, hoping that her swap will benefit them all at the merge.

Zayn was left blindsided by the vote, leaving Gareth concerned as he expressed that he'd flip on Rana if given the opportunity as he had no loyalties in the tribe. While Nico kept clashing with the rest of Aguila, after Brigitte had stolen his cigarettes to keep focus on him. Mzi had lost the tribe's fishing hook, but managed to fashion a makeshift hook from one of the women's accessories to maintain his role as food provider.

Nico returned to camp furious that he was nearly voted out unanimously by the tribe, despite Aguila having no time to strategize after Jude's exit at Tribal Council. Rana's living situation continued to worsen as they were unable to make fire nine days into the game, with the women working hard to lift Gareth's morale to remain in the game.

The mood in Aguila rose as the tribe's decision to keep Mzi for his role as food provider over the combatant Sam saw tribe morale return to normal. While Rana were starving as they still struggled to make fire after a week in the game.

Tribal Council was difficult for Rana, but Jacinda was excited that her game had finally began. The atmosphere over at Aguila was positive, where their food and shelter situation was more stable. Brigitte and Sam were identified as a duo as Aguila noticed how close the two were getting since the beginning.

Arriving in the Pearl Islands for a media briefing, 14 South Africans were divided into two tribes of 7 (Aguila in Blue and Rana in Red) and were marooned immediately in Panama.