Survivor South Africa Season 9 Episode 07 Description
Expect the Unexpected
Pinty annoyed the rest of Yontau by celebrating Seamus’ ouster at camp the next morning, despite Dino knowing that it was Shona who informed the tribe about Seamus’ plans. In the lead up to a potential tribe swap, Toni tried to convince Tejan and Palesa that they should try and work on flipping Steffi against Danté if they have the chance.
Gathering in front of Nico on Day 12, the two tribes swapped by randomly picking a red or blue vial of water. Shona, however, picked a yellow vial, which allowed her to pick whichever tribe she wanted. Despite her allies, Dino and Phil, outnumbered against original Masu members, Shona chose to stick with Yontau, to the bafflement of Meryl.
The swap breathed new life into Toni’s game, far from Danté and the Breakfast Club, where now she could work with the original Yontau members if possible. Steffi and Pinty both felt vulnerable with the Yontau majority at the new Masu tribe.
The Outpost: One tribe member of the newly swapped tribes must each go to the Outpost to negotiate for reward items for their tribes.
Danté volunteered to go for Yontau, muscling in as the leader of the Masu majority on the tribe, while Tejan was selected by Masu, with Toni arranging it to avoid sending Steffi to the Outpost where she could find an advantage. At the Outpost, the two men traded items, while sharing fruit juice and cookies, before Danté urged Tejan to reach out to Felix, his former tribemate in Island of Secrets, for an alliance. Inside rice bags for each of their tribes were clues to a hidden immunity idol at their respective camps. Returning to camp, Danté aroused suspicion from Dino about having found an advantage, though he managed to find the idol, with the caveat that he needed to trade it to someone on Masu and hopefully receive the new Yontau idol from Masu in return.
Knowing that original Yontau was on the outs, Phil tried to reconnect with Marian, as they each played on Champions but not together, while Shona tried to bring a peaceful decorum around camp. Leading up to the next challenge, Marian had decided that if Yontau won immunity, she would use her Diplomatic Immunity to save Steffi, bringing her onto Yontau and keeping her ally in the game.
Reward/Immunity Challenge: Three tribe members at a time would compete in 3 rounds, where Nico releases two large wooden balls down a ramp and into a mud pit. Both tribes must try to push one of the wooden balls into their respective goals to earn a point. The first tribe to score two points wins a bunny chow meal and immunity.
The first round of the challenge lasted over an hour. During the round, Danté lied to Tejan about not finding the idol, when Tejan revealed he hadn’t found one on Masu. Steffi slipped and aggravated her ACL injury, forcing the medical team to remove her from the challenge. Nico declared that since the round had lasted for over an hour and Masu were one person short to compete, the round was declared a stalemate and that the next round with new players would decide the challenge. An all-women’s bout of Yontau’s Palesa, Meryl, and Shona fought against Masu’s Pinty, Toni, and Killarney. With the Outcasts getting rough in the challenge, Nico halted the round after a body slam back to the ground onto Shona’s chest by Pinty had left her unable to breathe in pain.
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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.
