Survivor South Africa: Immunity Island

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

• Marooning Challenge: The two tribes were given 2 minutes to grab as many supplies as they can and place it on their tribe mats. At the end of the challenge hung two individual immunity necklaces, one for each tribe. Any castaway who grabbed a necklace would be immune at their first Tribal Council. A hidden Tribe Advantage discovered gave the castaway's tribe camping supplies to go with their winnings.

Dino managed to grabbed the Zamba necklace, with Renier reluctantly revealing he found the Tribe Advantage, winning camping supplies for Zamba. Following the challenge, the Zamba tribe sort to build a temporary shelter with Thoriso and Renier noticing Jason's hesistant approach at leading the tribe in camp building. Shaun and Qieän started sorting through the food supplies to look for idol clues, to the chagrin of Amy. On the Vuna beach, the tribe gravitated towards Anesu, while she and Wardah kept between them their real world connections through yoga. Despite Chappies' best efforts, the Vuna shelter was incomplete before the night rain started.

• Reward Challenge: Each tribe sent forward a delegate to compete in a fire-making challenge. The first to build a fire and successfully burn through their rope won flint and fire-building supplies for their tribe.

Chappies volunteered for Vuna and outshone Jason from Zamba in the challenge. Along with winning the challenge, Nico informed both Chappies and James that attending the reward challenge gave each of them Diplomatic Immunity. Both of them were given bracelets that have the ability to let them mutiny from their tribe if they lose an immunity challenge before the merge. Both chose not to reveal this potential immunity to their tribes, with Mike being suspicious of Chappies on his return to Vuna with the reward.

• Immunity Challenge: From the river shore, five tribe members must swim out to buoys to retrieve rope ladder rungs. The next two tribe members then must build a rope ladder to reach a platform, where one tribe member must unravel puzzle bags and build the second rope ladder. At the top of the platform, the last two tribe members must complete a puzzle to win immunity for their tribe.

Despite lagging through the beginning portions of the challenge, Vuna came from behind to blitz through the puzzle for the win. During the challenge, Dino tried to get in contact with Paul on Vuna to convince him to be sent to Immunity Island if Zamba lost, something Shaun had noticed. Vuna, however, decided to send Thoriso to Immunity Island, granting her immunity at Zamba's first tribal council.

At Immunity Island, Thoriso was given the option to play for a clue to her tribe's hidden immunity idol at the risk of losing her vote, or to leave Immunity Island immediately. She chose to compete and keep her immunity, but lost her vote from failing the challenge.

Returning from the immunity challenge, the tribe consensus was to either vote out Shaun or Qieän for their idol searching on Day 1, which didn't sit well with Jason, as he wanted to work with Shaun despite already forming a majority without him. When Jason tried to convince Reiner that the target could be Amy for failing the puzzle, Reiner started spreading the word throughout the majority of the tribe that Jason needed to go, with some doubts from Anela and Amy. Meanwhile, Shaun's behaviour had alienated him from the tribe, leaving him without a clue on what was going on.

At Tribal Council, Shaun started to point out suspicious things he noticed from Dino in the immunity challenge, trying to get the target off his back. However, Anela tried to explain the majority's rationale for not trusting Shaun. Upon returning from Immunity Island, Thoriso was forced to explain that she couldn't vote, having accepted the island's immunity necklace. While the Zamba tribe spoke about maintaining tribe loyalty, Shaun was left out of the loop with Reiner successfully blindsiding Jason out of the game for trying to save Shaun.

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.

• Reward Challenge: The tribes have to swim four at a time out to a cage structure in the river to retrieve 4 fishing traps with puzzle pieces inside. Once the traps are on the shoreline, the last remaining tribe member must complete a puzzle board, with the winning tribe receiving a fishing kit for their camp.

Zamba came from behind with Dino stunning Vuna and his own tribe with how quick he completed Zamba's puzzle at the reward challenge. Vuna treated the loss as an opportunity to start solidifying alliances in case they lost the immunity challenge. Pinty tried to formulate an alliance with Anesu, Chappies, and Paul; while Carla tried to pull in Mike, Kiran, and Anesu, with Wardah and Tyson in between and Santoni left out.

• Immunity Challenge: The two tribes must traverse a 3-stage obstacle course carrying heavy sandbags full of coconuts. At the end of the course, the tribes can open their bags to sift out coconuts for throwing bags. One tribe member then must throw the sandbags to knock over a block puzzle. Once the blocks have all been knocked over, two tribe members must rebuild the block puzzle to win immunity for their tribe.

Again, Dino managed to bring Zamba back from the brink with Qieän's help to win immunity over Vuna. Zamba elected to exile Santoni to Immunity Island, where she won a clue to a hidden immunity idol somewhere at Tribal Council. She also utilized her time in exile to find a second clue for an idol hidden at Vuna.

Despite the rainy weather and poor shelter at Vuna, the tribe found themselves stuck between eliminating Mike, whose loyalties outside of Carla and Kiran were unknown, or removing Pinty from their struggling camp life to unify the tribe. Pinty, unaware of the target on her back, informed Tyson about Chappies' Diplomatic Immunity, while Anesu, Kiran, Tyson and Wardah were contemplating the best option for their respective alliances. At Tribal Council, Vuna as a whole talked about trying to form immediate trust among the tribe, with Anesu's networks of alliances joining with Mike and Carla to blindside Pinty, leaving Chappies out of the vote.

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

• Reward Challenge: In a best out of 5 challenge, the two tribes elected 1 tribe member to fight for a sandbag against a tribe member of the same gender on the opposing tribe. Each bout had a prize, ranging from a hammock, chairs, pillows and blankets, a tarp, and a nutrition kit for the winner of each bout. The final bout also included a tribe advantage for the immunity challenge.

Before the reward challenge, the two tribes dropped their buffs for a tribe shuffle. During the challenge, Santoni let Paul know about the hidden immunity idol hidden near Vuna's well, which he tried to relay to Tyson during one of the bouts. As soon as Vuna returned to camp, Tyson went looking for the idol and let his remaining allies (Anesu and Kiran) know that he had found it, to the relief of the outnumbered original Vuna members.

• Immunity Challenge: Starting from a floating platform in the river, 5 tribe members had to swim to a floating wall climb, where they had to jump off to reach tied-up rings. When all five rings are returned to the tribe's platform, two tribe members have to toss their rings onto a floating hooked platform, with two retrievers in the water. The first tribe to land all 5 of their rings on their hook wins immunity.

Zamba's advantage won by Anela was that they would need to retrieve only 4 rings instead of 5 in the first half of the challenge. However, despite this advantage, Vuna caught up and beat the new Zamba for immunity. Returning to the Zamba camp, Mike and Carla could sense that the Pinty vote had alienated Chappies and Paul, and they tried to reign in the original Vuna members to stay strong as the majority against Amy, Anela, and Shaun. Amy was exiled to Immunity Island for the afternoon, where she lost a 3D puzzle; this gave the new Vuna an opportunity to raid the Zamba camp after Tribal Council.

Tribal Council arrived with Mike, Carla, and Wardah all appealing to Chappies and Paul to remain Vuna strong. However, with Santoni having approached the original Zamba members as well, the outsider Vuna members turned on Mike for his calculated demeanor trying to restrict their game.

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.

• Reward Challenge: The tribes had to elect their strongest man and woman. In 3 bouts, each tribe must push a spinning pole around a pivot to knock the opposing tribe's beam. The first tribe to score 2 wins earns a shopping spree at a Survivor Supply Store for themselves or their tribe. This is a modified version of an Immunity challenge used in Season 2: Malaysia.

Marisha almost single-handedly won the reward for Vuna, to celebrate her daughter's birthday while in the game. She and Dino chose to use the reward shopping spree to boost moral at Vuna over their own personal benefits. While in a new majority at Zamba, Paul's general behavior around the camp had begun to annoy all the women in the tribe, with Santoni reaching out to Carla and Wardah about turning against Paul and Chappies. Meanwhile, Shaun had an allergic reaction to some of the tribe's food supply, which led to Medical coming to camp to intervene when he started struggling to breathe.

• Immunity Challenge: In pairs, the tribes must race out to a field full of 6 giant crates each and return them to a large wooden structure. They then have to correctly build the crate puzzles stepping up the wooden structure to win immunity for their tribe.

Due to his allergic reaction, Shaun was forced to sit out of the challenge to let the medication work. Vuna blew out Zamba as the women were left unheard while the men tried to build the puzzle. The new Vuna elected to send Carla to Immunity Island, who then decided to Give Up and Go to keep her vote to help protect Wardah.

The original Vuna men wanted to get rid of Wardah initially, but when Carla returned to camp and lied about her Immunity Island necklace, they started to switch their target to Carla, knowing the full truth from Santoni's visit earlier in the game. Anela, knowing that it was Paul and Chappies that saved him at the previous Tribal Council, decided to vote with them to avoid betraying Chappies. At the vote, the Vuna women banded together with Amy and Shaun to blindside Paul out of the game.

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.

• Reward/Immunity Challenge: With both tribes attending Tribal Council, each individual tribe member could choose between two rewards. Each tribe member must stand on a pedestal while on one leg, and balance a large bag of rice on their heads. The last tribe standing wins a hot dog feast to have while attending the opposing tribe's Tribal Council, while the last tribe member standing wins an individual double portion and alcoholic beverage of their choice at the feast. However, both tribes can also play for a trip to Immunity Island for individual immunity at Tribal Council.

Anesu and Thoriso from Vuna were the only ones to play for Immunity Island, with Thoriso losing mere moments after the challenge started, and Vuna won reward, with Nicole winning the extra nourishment for herself. At Immunity Island, Anesu chose to Stay and Play a timed memory game, and won a Tribal Council Pass. The Pass allows her to select a person to leave Tribal Council before the vote up until the Final 7. Her decision left Kiran and Tyson alone back at camp to fight for their spot in the game, while Dino and Renier wanted to keep Thoriso. Nicole and Marisha pushed for Thoriso as they hadn't formed trust with her and the Hidden Immunity Idol note she held. The Vuna minority's plan to take out a Zamba 6 member fell apart when Tyson was associated to how Thoriso found out she was being targeted. Tyson revealed to the tribe that he'll play his idol and vote for Thoriso, while the Zamba 6 decided, due to doubting Thoriso, to split votes between the two of them. At Tribal Council, the Zamba majority preached about having trust with one another, while Kiran offered to be a backup vote if Thoriso had an idol. Tyson played his idol, while Marisha successfully called out Thoriso's bluff, sending Thoriso out of the game with the help of the Vuna minority.

Meanwhile at Zamba, despite the women successfully taking out Paul, the alliance between the Vuna outsiders and the original Zamba members pulled a long bluff to placate Carla, as her lies about her trip to Immunity Island were seen as a final straw. Carla and Wardah tried to keep the women strong to take out Chappies. However, the majority chose to vote Carla out.