Survivor South Africa: Immunity Island
Survivor South Africa: Immunity Island | |
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Presented by | Nico Panagio |
No. of days | 39 |
No. of castaways | 20 |
Location | Wild Coast, Eastern Cape, South Africa |
Release | |
Original network | M-Net |
Original release | 3 June 2021 |
Additional information | |
Filming dates | 6 November 14 December 2020[1] | –
Season chronology |
Survivor South Africa: Immunity Island is the eighth season of the South African reality competition show, Survivor South Africa. Before the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa this would have been the first time in the show's history that a third season been ordered by M-Net would have aired in back-to-back years. Originally shelved due to budget and broadcast scheduling[2] after the end of the seventh season, Survivor South Africa's social media announced a Season 8 audition call on 8 December 2019.[3] Applications were open from then until the 20th of January 2020, with the season airing in the second half of 2020. Immunity Island will be the sixth season hosted by Nico Panagio, and will yet again be produced by Afrokaans Film & Television.
Production was initially set to take place from March to May 2020;[4] however, M-Net and Afrokaans had to reassess the season's location and timeline for filming due to the COVID-19 pandemic potentially putting the production and full cast at risk of exposure.[5] Series director Leroux Botha assured fans that Afrokaans were making a plan to navigate the pandemic.[6] On the 16th of April 2020, M-Net announced that the season would be postponed indefinitely as a result of the global measures in preventing the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. To ensure the safety of the film production, crew and contestants that had been cast, M-Net felt the need to halt production before it began.[7] On December 17th, Afrokaans and M-Net announced that they managed to finish filming a season locally in South Africa,[8] with a following announcement on December 20th that the season was filmed in the Wild Coast region of the Eastern Cape, with a premiere date set for 3rd June 2021.[9]
Immunity Island
This season introduced Immunity Island, similar to the titular Island of Secrets in the previous season. The winners of the immunity challenge would select one castaway to be sent to Immunity Island, granting that person the immunity island necklace for the upcoming Tribal Council.[10] The exiled castaway would then be given two options:
- Stay and Play: In which the exiled player would participate in a solo Immunity Island challenge for an advantage offered. Succeeding in the challenge would award the player with the advantage while failing would give the player a disadvantage in the game. Additionally, while the exiled player is immune from elimination (by virtue of the Immunity Island Necklace), they are not able to vote in that night's Tribal Council.
- Give Up and Go: In which the exiled player would immediately return to their tribe. While they can participate in the Tribal Council (being able to strategise with their tribe and cast a vote), they have the option of bequeathing their immunity island necklace to one of their tribemates at Tribal Council, making their selection immune, or not using it at all.
Contestants
The cast is composed of 20 players that form the two tribes, Vuna and Zamba.[11][12] Day 7 saw the tribes partake in a random draw shuffle.
Contestant | Original tribe | Switched Tribes | Finish |
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Jason Brookstein 27, Johannesburg, Gauteng |
Zamba | 1st voted out Day 3 | |
Noleen "Pinty" Nkanjeni 30, Cape Town, Western Cape |
Vuna | 2nd voted out Day 6 | |
Mike Laws 32, Cape Town, Western Cape |
Vuna | Zamba | 3rd voted out Day 8 |
Paul Cupido 29, Johannesburg, Gauteng |
Vuna | Zamba | 4th voted out Day 11 |
Thoriso M-Afrika 36, Kariega, Eastern Cape |
Zamba | Vuna | 5th voted out Day 13 |
Carla Gubb 29, Cape Town, Western Cape |
Vuna | Zamba | 6th voted out Day 13 |
Amy Eliason 33, Johannesburg, Gauteng |
Zamba | Zamba | |
Anela Majozi 25, Durban, Kwa Zulu Natal |
Zamba | Zamba | |
Anesu Mbizvo 29, Johannesburg, Gauteng |
Vuna | Vuna | |
Francois "Chappies" Chapman 32, Centurion, Gauteng |
Vuna | Zamba | |
Dino Paulo 30, Johannesburg, Gauteng |
Zamba | Vuna | |
Kiran Naidoo 29, Johannesburg, Gauteng |
Vuna | Vuna | |
Marisha du Plessis 35, Tulbagh, Western Cape |
Zamba | Vuna | |
Nicole Wilmans 26, Somerset West, Western Cape |
Zamba | Vuna | |
Qieän Wang 35, Cape Town, Western Cape & Hong Kong, PRC |
Zamba | Vuna | |
Renier Louwrens 30, Secunda, Mpumalanga |
Zamba | Vuna | |
Santoni Engelbrecht 39, Strand, Western Cape |
Vuna | Zamba | |
Shaun Wilson 40, Cape Town, Western Cape |
Zamba | Zamba | |
Tyson Zulu 24, Johannesburg, Gauteng |
Vuna | Vuna | |
Wardah Hartley 39, Johannesburg, Gauteng |
Vuna | Zamba |
- Notes
Season summary
Episode | Challenge winner(s) | Immunity Island | Eliminated | Finish | ||||
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No. | Air date | Reward | Immunity | Immune | Scenario | Result | ||
1 | June 3, 2021 | Zamba[a] | Vuna | Thoriso | Idol Clue | Lost | Jason | 1st voted out Day 3 |
Vuna | Dino[b] | |||||||
2 | June 10, 2021 | Zamba | Zamba | Santoni | Idol Clue | Won | Pinty | 2nd voted out Day 6 |
3 | June 17, 2021 | Zamba[c] | Vuna | Amy | Tribe Raid | Lost | Mike | 3rd voted out Day 8 |
4 | June 24, 2021 | Vuna | Vuna | N/A | Refused[d] | Paul | 4th voted out Day 11 | |
5 | July 1, 2021 | Vuna | Anesu[e] | Anesu | Tribal Council Pass |
Won | Thoriso | 5th Voted Out Day 13 |
Carla | 6th Voted Out Day 13 |
- ^ Both tribes received supplies in the reward challenge. However, Zamba won camping supplies by grabbing a tribe advantage during the challenge.
- ^ Dino won individual immunity for his first Tribal Council in the reward challenge.
- ^ Both tribes received supplies in the reward. However, Anela helped win a tribe advantage for Zamba in the next immunity challenge.
- ^ Carla chose to Give Up and Go, choosing to keep her vote and give up Immunity for herself, instead of partaking in the Immunity Island challenge.
- ^ As both Tribes were attending Tribal Council, the castaways could compete for reward or a trip to Immunity Island for Immunity. Anesu and Thoriso competed against each other, with Anesu winning a trip to Immunity Island.
Episodes
No. in series | Episode No. | Title | Timeline | Original air date | |
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108 | 1 | "Episode 1" | Day 1-3 | June 3, 2021 | |
Arriving in the Wild Coast, the castaways took part in a random draw to select the two tribes, Vuna and Zamba.
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.
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.
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. | |||||
109 | 2 | "Episode 2" | Day 4-6 | June 10, 2021 | |
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.
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.
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. | |||||
110 | 3 | "Episode 3" | Day 7-8 | June 17, 2021 | |
Carla felt pleased orchestrating Pinty's blindside, but noticed that the men were praising Mike for the move.
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.
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. | |||||
111 | 4 | "Episode 4" | Day 9-11 | June 24, 2021 | |
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.
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.
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. | |||||
112 | 5 | "Episode 5" | Day 12-13 | July 1, 2021 | |
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.
Anesu and Thoriso from Vuna were the only ones to play for Immunity Island, with Thoriso losing mere moments after the challenge started. Additionally, 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. |
Voting history
Original tribes | Switched tribes | ||||||||
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Episode # | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | |||
Day # | 3 | 6 | 8 | 11 | 13 | ||||
Eliminated | Jason | Pinty | Mike | Paul | Thoriso | Carla | |||
Votes | 7–2 | 6–2–1 | 5–3 | 5–2–1 | 2–1–0[a] | 5–2 | |||
Voter | Vote | ||||||||
Amy | Jason | None[b] | Paul | Carla | |||||
Anela | Jason | Mike | Wardah | Carla | |||||
Anesu | Pinty | None[b] | |||||||
Chappies | Mike | Mike | Carla | Carla | |||||
Dino | Jason | ||||||||
Kiran | Pinty | Thoriso | |||||||
Marisha | Jason | Kiran | |||||||
Nicole | Jason | ||||||||
Qieän | Jason | ||||||||
Renier | Jason | ||||||||
Santoni | None[b] | Mike | Paul | Carla | |||||
Shaun | Qieän | Mike | Paul | Carla | |||||
Tyson | Pinty | Thoriso | |||||||
Wardah | Pinty | Anela | Paul | Chappies | |||||
Carla | Pinty | Anela | Paul | Chappies | |||||
Thoriso | None[b] | None[c] | |||||||
Paul | Wardah | Mike | Wardah | ||||||
Mike | Pinty | Anela | |||||||
Pinty | Mike | ||||||||
Jason | Qieän |
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