Survivor South Africa: Malaysia is the second season of the reality television show Survivor South Africa

Survivor South Africa

Survivor South Africa: Panama is the first season of the South African reality television show Survivor South Africa, a spin-off from the popular US reality television series Survivor, which itself was a spin-off from the Swedish Expedition Robinson...

. The series is very similar to the American version of the show, with two teams (and later one group) of contestants vying for a large sum of money while stranded in a remote location. Each episode, one contestant is voted off of the show by his or her comrades, wittling the group down until only one survivor remains.

Many changes were announced for the second season by M-Net

M-Net

M-Net is a subscription-funded television channel in South Africa, established in 1986 by Naspers....

, which airs the show. This included the addition of two contestants, a shorter filming period (27 days), the change in location (Johor, Malaysia), and a pre-show vote by South African citizens to choose one of the contestants. However, the show's format remained much the same, with the prize set at 1,000,000. Mark Bayly hosted this season.

The application process ended on the 2 April 2007. According to M-Net's website, two thirds of the entries in 2007 were from males. The percentage of applicants in the 40-59 age group was also higher than in 2006, and the 20 oldest applicants were 77 years old. This may quell another concern that emerged in the first season: that all of the contestants had backgrounds that were too similar. The 16th contestant, Lorette Mostert, was voted in by South Africans via M-Net's website (http://www.mnet.co.za/survivor) between 23 - 30 April 2007. Filming began in mid-May and ended in June. The show was initially broadcast August 22 to November 14, 2007.

Contestants

Contestant	Original Tribe	Switched Tribe	Merged Tribe	Finish	Total Votes
Nomfundo Vilokazi 27, Pretoria Pretoria Pretoria is a city located in the northern part of Gauteng Province, South Africa. It is one of the country's three capital cities, serving as the executive and de facto national capital; the others are Cape Town, the legislative capital, and Bloemfontein, the judicial capital.Pretoria is...  & Cape Town Cape Town Cape Town is the second-most populous city in South Africa, and the provincial capital and primate city of the Western Cape. As the seat of the National Parliament, it is also the legislative capital of the country. It forms part of the City of Cape Town metropolitan municipality...	Iban			1st Voted Out Day 3	4
Nicola Windt 37; Harding, KZN	Bajau			2nd Voted Out Day 5	5
Viwe Soga 23, Melrose, Jhb	Iban			3rd Voted Out Day 7	5
Elsie Smith 24, Sunninghill, Jhb Sunninghill, Gauteng Sunninghill is a commercial and residential suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located in Region 2. The N1 freeway, which at this area is eight lanes across, forms its southern boundary with access at Rivonia offramp. A new road, the K60, has been built through the centre of Sunninghill to...	Bajau	Iban		4th Voted Out Day 9	8
Nichal Ramchander 25, Phoenix, Durban	Bajau	Bajau		5th Voted Out Day 11	6
Rijesh Govender 30, Lyndhurst, Jhb	Bajau	Iban		6th Voted Out Day 13	4
Lisa Atkinson 21, Durban Durban Durban is the largest city in the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal and the third largest city in South Africa. It forms part of the eThekwini metropolitan municipality. Durban is famous for being the busiest port in South Africa. It is also seen as one of the major centres of tourism...  & Stellenbosch	Iban	Bajau		7th Voted Out Day 15	11
Irshaad Ally 29, Maitland, Cape Town Cape Town Cape Town is the second-most populous city in South Africa, and the provincial capital and primate city of the Western Cape. As the seat of the National Parliament, it is also the legislative capital of the country. It forms part of the City of Cape Town metropolitan municipality...	Iban	Iban		8th Voted Out Day 17	4
Hein Vosloo 47, Manzengwenya, KZN	Bajau	Bajau	Empu	9th Voted Out Day 19	5
Dyke Higginson 28, Marina Beach, KZN	Bajau	Iban		10th Voted Out 1st Jury Member Day 21	5
Angela Beck 23, Krugersdorp, Gauteng Krugersdorp, Gauteng Krugersdorp is a mining city with between 378,821 and 408,065 inhabitants in the West Rand of the Gauteng province of South Africa. Krugersdorp was founded in 1887 by Marthinus Pretorius and named after Paul Kruger....	Bajau	Bajau		11th Voted Out 2nd Jury Member Day 23	4
Angie Bennett 30, Mowbray, Cape Town Mowbray, Cape Town Mowbray is one of the Southern Suburbs of Cape Town, South Africa. Its original name was Driekoppen .-Geography:Mowbray is bounded on the west by the M3 freeway, beyond which lies Devil's Peak, and on the north by the N2 freeway, beyond which lies the suburb of Observatory...	Iban	Iban		12th Voted Out 3rd Jury Member Day 25	6
Mandla Mbau 36, Glen Marais, Jhb	Iban	Bajau		Eliminated in challenge 4th Jury Member Day 26	2
Amanda Hoosen 29, Weltevreden Park	Bajau	Iban		13th Voted Out 5th Jury Member Day 27	3
Grant Clarke 35, Tokai, Cape Town Tokai, Cape Town Tokai, a large residential suburb of Cape Town, South Africa, is situated on the foothills of the Constantiaberg, and is bordered by, Steenberg and Kirstenhof to the South, Bergvliet to the East, Constantia to the North and the SAFCOL pine tree plantations against the mountain to the...	Iban	Bajau		Runner-Up	3
Lorette Mostert 36, Middelburg, Mpumalanga Middelburg, Mpumalanga Middelburg is a large farming and industrial town in the South African province of Mpumalanga.Middelburg was established as Nasareth, , in 1864 by the Voortrekkers on the banks of the Klein Olifants River. The name was changed in 1872 to Middelburg to mark its situation midway between the Transvaal...	Iban	Bajau		Sole Survivor	5

Episodes

Episode title	Air date	Challenges		Eliminated	Vote	Finish
		Reward	Immunity
Premiere	2007-08-22	Bajau		Nomfundo	4-3-1	1st Voted Out Day 3
Episode 2	2007-08-29	Iban	Iban	Nicola	5-3	2nd Voted Out Day 5
Episode 3	2007-09-05	Iban	Bajau	Viwe	5-2	3rd Voted Out Day 7
Episode 4	2007-09-12	Iban	Bajau	Elsie	5-1	4th Voted Out Day 9
Episode 5	2007-09-19	Iban	Iban	Nichal	6-1	5th Voted Out Day 11
Episode 6	2007-09-26	Bajau	Bajau	Rijesh	4-1	6th Voted Out Day 13
Episode 7	2007-10-03	Iban	Iban	Lisa	5-1	7th Voted Out Day 15
Episode 8	2007-10-11	Iban	Bajau	Irshaad	3-1	8th Voted Out Day 17
Episode 9	2007-10-18	None	Dyke	Hein	4-4	9th Voted Out Day 19
Episode 10	2007-10-24	Dyke	Mandla	Dyke	4-2-1	10th Voted Out Day 21
Episode 11	2007-10-31	Mandla	Grant	Angela	4-1-1	11th Voted Out Day 23
Episode 12	2007-11-08	Mandla	Lorette	Angie	3-2	12th Voted Out Day 25
Finale	2007-11-14	None	Lorette	Mandla	No vote	Eliminated in challenge Day 26
				Amanda	1-0	13th Voted Out Day 27
		Jury Vote		Grant	3-2	Runner-Up
				Lorette		Sole Survivor

Elimination notes

• Nomfundo - Voted out of her tribe 4-3-1. She was seen as a threat in keeping the numbers in the latter part of the game as she was weak in the water challenges so far by an alliance of Viwe, Grant, Lisa and Angie.
• Nicola - Voted out of her tribe 5-3. With Elsie in the foreground speaking out and retaliating after Bajau lost their first immunity
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  challenge, Rijesh changed the target from Dyke to the weakest out of the workers Nicola.
• Viwe - Voted out of his tribe 5-2. He suffered from a lack of food and stated at tribal council he was not part of any alliances.
• Elsie - Voted out of her tribe 5-1. A surprise tribal shuffle had placed Elsie in her opposing tribe Iban with three other of her Bajau tribemates. After the immunity challenge, she had injured her hand and arm. Since the whole tribe would have to partake in the challenges ahead, the former Bajau members decided to let Elsie go.
• Nichal - Voted out of his tribe 6-1. After the tribal shuffle on day 9, Nichal was in a tribe of 3 former Bajau and 4 former Iban members. Despite being in a majority alliance, Nichal was voted out.
• Rijesh - Voted out of his tribe 4-1. His clever removal of Nicola from the game was his downfall as his back then alliance partner Amanda saw a snake-like personality in him, which contributed to his ousting.
• Lisa - Voted out of her tribe 5-1. Her lazy antics in the beginning of the game created a negative attitude towards herself and after seen the weakest in the new Bajau tribe as she sat out the last three challenges, her former Iban tribemates voted her off with support from the original Bajau members Hein and Angela.
• Irshaad - Voted out of his tribe 3-1. His explosive personality which came out in previous challenges separated him from the rest of the new Iban tribemates remaining, especially his original Iban tribemate Angie. She thought he had to go and the others followed her lead.
• Hein - Voted out of the tribe 4-4. In a four by four tie against Lorette, a sudden death tie breaker ensued. Lorette won, and Hein was eliminated. This was not revealed until the start of the next episode.
• Dyke - Voted out of the tribe 4-2-1. The strongest castaway post merge and a big target. After losing the second individual immunity challenge, Dyke was eliminated.
• Angela - Voted out of her tribe 4-1-1 In a minority alliance, she was voted out by everyone except for Grant who voted for Amanda.
• Angie - Voted out of the tribe 3-2. After betraying Lorette and Mandla's trust for targeting Lorette for the previous tribal council, Angie created a rift in the Iban alliance. Amanda, seeing the opportunity of staying around the next couple of days, sided with Lorette to vote out Angie.
• Mandla - Eliminated in the final 4 immunity challenge: a last-man-standing endurance contest where the first to fall into the water was eliminated. Surprisingly, Mandla hit the water first.
• Amanda - Voted out of the tribe. Lorette had won the final immunity challenge. She had the choice of her alliance partner Grant or former Bajau member Amanda. Amanda's efforts to convince Lorette to take her to the final two were unsuccessful, and she became the final member of the jury.
• Grant - Lost to Lorette 2-3. Despite being seen as a "true player of the game", he did not receive enough votes from the jury to win the game.
• Lorette - Sole Survivor 3-2. Being a hard worker from day one had put Lorette in all her tribes' good books. She managed to keep her head when she needed to and she won crucial immunity challenges without once breaking her alliance with Mandla.

Voting history

	Original Tribes			Switched Tribes					Merged Tribe
Episode #:	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13
Eliminated:	Nomfundo	Nicola	Viwe	Elsie	Nichal	Rijesh	Lisa	Irshaad	Hein	Dyke	Angela	Angie	Mandla	Amanda	Grant	Lorette
Voter	Lorette																Lisa		Viwe		Nichal		Lisa		Hein	Dyke	Angela	Angie		Amanda	Jury Vote
Grant	Nomfundo		Viwe		Nichal		Lisa		Hein	Dyke	Amanda	Mandla
Amanda		Nicola		Elsie		Rijesh		Irshaad	Lorette	Grant	Anglea	Angie				Lorette
Mandla	Lisa		Lisa		Nichal		Lisa		Hein	Dyke	Angela	Angie				Lorette
Angie	Nomfundo		Viwe	Elsie		Rijesh		Irshaad	Hein	Dyke	Angela	Mandla			Grant
Angela		Nicola			Nichal		Lisa		Lorette	Angie	Lorette				Grant
Dyke		Elsie		Elsie		Rijesh		Irshaad	Lorette	Grant						Lorette
Hein		Elsie			Nichal		Lisa		Lorette
Irshaad	Grant		Viwe	Elsie		Rijesh		Angie
Lisa	Nomfundo		Viwe		Nichal		Hein
Rijesh		Nicola		Elsie		Amanda
Nichal		Nicola			Lisa
Elsie		Nicola		Irshaad
Viwe	Nomfundo		Lisa
Nicola		Elsie
Nomfundo	Lisa

External links

• Official Site
• Sole Survivor Blog
• Survivor South Africa: Malaysia on TVSA
• Survivor South Africa Mini-Site on TVSA