Survivor South Africa Season 9 Episode 04 Description
Walking on Eggshells
The fallout of PK’s vote saw a distraught Toni arguing with Danté, which overflowed to the morning where she had to leave the shelter due to Danté continuing to raise his voice at her, upsetting her further. Making Toni wish to be swapped from the tribe as soon as possible to get away from him. Meanwhile, Marian, Meryl, and Steffi solidified themselves as the Full Package trio within the Breakfast Club alliance. At Yontau, while the tribe took to sleeping around the fire instead of their shelter, Dino passed out on top of the fire in the middle of the night, getting second degree burns on both his hands. Medical attended to his hands in the morning and cleared him to continue the game.
Reward/Immunity Challenge: Electing two tribe members to hoist up a pair of nets, the remainder of the tribes must rush to fill the opposing tribe’s nets with sandbags to cause them to drop to the ground. The tribe that manages to get the opposing tribe to drop both of their nets first wins a trip to a Breakfast bar reward and Immunity.
On reward, Masu as a whole spent some time searching for an Idol or an Idol clue, greatly appreciating the food reward as well. Both Seamus and Dino worried that Yontau’s alliances hadn’t fully formed yet, so the tribe were undecided on who to vote out. Phil and Felix, while skeptical of Seamus’ sociable status in the tribe, agreed that either Pinty or Tania needed to be voted out for the sake of keeping Yontau unified. Tevin approached Tania, willing to keep her around if she patched things up with Pinty or pitched a means to get rid of her properly, however it led to Tania arguing with Pinty about hogging the fire last night that led to her sleeping in the cold. The scrambling over the next day before tribal council saw Tania alienating herself from the women she allied with, while Shona privately made herself a fake Immunity Idol to plant at Tribal Council for future protection.
At Tribal Council, the tribe felt disappointed that one of them was about to remain a pre-merge boot in Survivor SA, but felt that the tribe needed to vote to keep the tribe unified against Masu. Tevin brought up that Seamus was in possession of the tribe’s idol and should proudly wear it to keep him safe for the first vote, while Dino names Tania as someone disrupting the unity in camp. In response, Tania tries to rally the tribe to step up and speak about their grievances about Pinty, but the tribe kept silent. Before the vote was revealed, Seamus used the idol on himself to send it back into the game. Meanwhile, Tania’s scrambling to pitch Pinty over her had failed, with Yontau unanimously voting her out of the game.
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Survivor South Africa Show Summary
Survivor South Africa is a South African reality game show based on the popular international Survivor format.
As in all versions of the show, it features group of strangers who are marooned in an isolated location, where they must provide food, water, fire and shelter for themselves. The contestants will compete in challenges to earn either a reward, or an immunity from elimination. The contestants will be progressively eliminated from the game as they are voted-off by their fellow contestants until only one remains and is given the title “Ultimate Survivor” and be awarded the grand prize of R1 million.
The first five seasons of the show were produced by Endemol and broadcast on M-Net. Since Season 6, the show has been produced by Afrokaans Film & Television.
The first two seasons were hosted by Mark Bayly, and from the third season Nico Panagio took over the hosting duties.
Survivor South Africa Format
The show follows the same general format as the other editions of Survivor. To begin, the players are split into two or three tribes, are taken to a remote isolated location and are forced to live off the land with meagre supplies for a period of several weeks. Frequent physical and mental challenges are used to pit the tribes against each other for rewards, such as food or luxuries, or for immunity, forcing the other tribe to attend Tribal Council, where they must vote one of their tribemates out of the game by secret ballot.
About halfway through the game, the tribes are merged into a single tribe, and challenges are on an individual basis; winning immunity prevents that player from being voted out. Most players that are voted out during this stage become members of the Tribal Council Jury. When only two or three players remain, the Final Tribal Council is held. The finalists plead their case to the Jury as to why they should win the game. The jurors then have the opportunity to interrogate the finalists before casting their vote for which finalist should be awarded the title of “Ultimate Survivor” and wins the grand prize of R1 Million.
Like other editions of the show, the South Africa edition has introduced numerous adaptations, or twists, on the core rules to prevent players from over-relying on strategies that succeeded in prior seasons or other editions of the show. The titular Island of Secrets and the upcoming Immunity Island, and non-playing Captains in Champions, kidnappings, tribe expansions and shuffles. Voting advantages and disadvantages, and in the first season, Panama introduced a Deadman’s Island where contestants voted out after the merge was isolated from the game until an opportunity to return arose.
