Survivor South Africa Season 9 Episode 12 Description
Guess What, You Are a Number!
In a first for Survivor SA, both tribes attend Tribal Council where they will all vote.
The hopes of finding safety for himself vanished when Shane unraveled the advantage and discovered it was Yontau’s hidden Diplomatic Immunity advantage, the very same advantage that Marian had just used hours earlier to switch tribes. Knowing that the advantage was useless to him, Shane sought to use the pouch it came in to bluff to the rest of Yontau that he too held an idol. The potential of Phil finding an idol at the Outpost made Meryl nervous, as the potential options for the vote dwindled with every idol found. She didn’t want to use her Tribal Council Pass advantage too soon, so she started pushing for the vote to go on Palesa, who was most likely to flip either on the Breakfast Club, or become an ally for Danté as he kept alienating himself from the rest of the women. When Phil returned from the Outpost, he created a lie that himself and Toni had to secretly vote for someone, and if they agreed, their target would have an extra vote against them at Tribal Council, implying that Shane would receive a vote against his name.
Toni repeated the same lie to Masu upon her return, trying to get the entire tribe to split votes on Meryl and Shane. However, her leadership had started to rub Steffi and Killarney the wrong way, wanting to make their own decisions than following Toni’s orders. With Marian on Masu now, Steffi suggested to Killarney to align with Marian and Shane (the very same people that blindsided her in Champions) come merge, as it would not be suspected by the rest of the game.
Day 19 at Yontau saw the tribe scrambling, with Palesa wanting to side with the Yontau outsiders and her original ally, Toni, in the vote. Meryl pushed the Breakfast Club to target Palesa over Danté’s preferred choice, Phil. Over at Masu, Toni’s plan frustrated the tribe, as the majority of them didn’t trust Phil outside of Felix.
At Tribal Council, Nico initiated discussions about how everyone’s relationships pre-game and in-game have changed, with Phil bringing up that he didn’t have any pre-game relationships compared to others. However, the two tribes tried to whisper plans to each other while Nico was chatting to others. Eventually, Nico allowed the Tribal Council to go live and let the two tribes discuss, with Meryl reaching out to as many people as she could to inform them that Yontau were targeting Palesa. Dino and Phil were concerned by the sudden plan changes, but Felix reassured them that all they needed to do was survive the vote. However, when the Palesa plans reached Tejan, he grew irritated by the sudden change of plans by the original Masu tribe members. Even after expressing his frustrations to Nico once the discussions died down, Tejan begrudgingly went along with Meryl’s suggestions with the majority of the two tribes, and voted out Palesa for being a social threat without the protection of an advantage in her possession.
After Palesa’s vote-out, both Shane and Danté revealed that they were bluffing with their invalid idols and Diplomatic Immunities, before Nico congratulated the surviving tribe members with yellow buffs signifying the final 11 had made it to the merge tribe, Salan.
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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.
