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They wanted to vote out Darren in Survivor South Africa: Santa Carolina Episode 4 but had to settle for Lady Lea instead after he used the hidden immunity idol.

Okkert’s starting to become the provider for his tribe following Hein’s visit. This may well prove a threat to Gys.

Timbila finds it awkward to have gotten rid of someone else other than Darren. They all say they’re mad at him because of what he said at tribal council. As if they liked him before.

Gys and Okkert are looking to get rid of either Sade or Hanna to break up their alliance. As the only non-Afrikaans speaker, Sade’s starting to feel like an outcast. She also realizes she’s useless at challenges.

The challenge is for reward and immunity. One tribe member will be a swimmer and make their way out to the raft. Then the remaining tribe members will pull that person and raft back to shore. The puzzle pieces will be used to build a ladder to get to the top of the tower. Reward will be chickens. Louw and Okkert are the swimmers. Both of the tribes are struggling to untie the knot to give their swimmers enough slack. Timbila is struggling a lot more, though, which is further complicated by Louw not being as strong a swimmer as Okkert, who at one point was one of the top athletes in the world. Okkert is the first to reach the platform and the raft, and he’s the first to get the raft undone. Their rope comes untied from the raft, but the wasted time is not enough to cost them the lead. Louw finally unlatches the raft, so his tribe can start pulling it in now that the other tribe is already on the beach. Chibudu’s established a lead that once again doesn’t look like it can be overcome, leading by about five steps. Chibudu wins immunity and reward.

Darren assumes he’s a goner again. Louw says that perhaps it might be good to keep him around since he’s the most skilled at the game, but that doesn’t seem to be a truthful statement. Just in case, he has a backup plan: Kaseran.

Ashley warns Kas that Louw’s trying to rally support against him. They’d like to keep ProVerb around as a swing vote, but they find him of no other use.

Darren has a last dying request for the tribe: just hold back for one more time.

At tribal council, Izak says there’s a group of 4 or 5 people. So who else is the odd man out? Darren says he’ll see Kas soon. Pro doesn’t have an understanding what’s going on within the tribe.

Playing with their minds one last time, Darren pretends he’s going for a hidden idol, only to open an empty pocket.

Votes
Louw
Darren
Darren
Darren
Darren

Although they pretended as if there were some shot it wouldn’t happen, Darren has been voted off the island. Nico’s question: what happens when everybody stops agreeing? Darren is looking forward to some serious backbiting and throat ripping.

Stay tuned to dingorue for another recap of Survivor South Africa: Santa Carolina Episode 6.

Survivor South Africa: Santa Carolina Episode 3 was the first episode of the season not to feature a crybaby quitter. Craig, whose tribe has not liked him since the beginning, ended up being the one to get the axe.

Lady Lea is worried that perhaps her tribe is not noticing that she’s bringing something to the table. She’s hoping that she can be a fisherperson, but it’s not working.

The reward challenge is beach golf with catapults and coconuts. Both tribes start off pretty terribly but improve quickly. Sort of. They both score at the same point on their first play through. Chibudu takes the lead 1-0 on the next go. Timbila then scores the next point to tie it 1-1. On the final point, Chibudu wins reward. Darren will be going to exile. Okkert will be joining Chibudu for the night. Their reward is Hein, the bushman who was the first person in the history of Survivor to start a fire without anything manmade. He’s got with him a tool and some fishing gear.

Gys feels threatened by Hein, who then decides to go off on his own to catch them some fish. He manages to catch 5 fish for them for breakfast. All of a sudden, their treatment of him becomes much more warm.

Darren’s looking forward to a day of chilling without the social stuff that’s going on at the other island. Now he, too, has a clue to the hidden immunity idol.

Both tribes will navigate their way across the water to a platform with a hole in it. At the bottom, there are puzzle pieces, which they must grab and bring back with them to the beach. Izak, Sandi, and Darren sit out for Timbila. Chibudu’s got a bit of a lead as they head to the platform. This lead grows pretty rapidly as Timbila aimlessly rows their boat around, unable to get it to the platform. This is quickly becoming a pointless challenge. Timbila finally makes it to the platform, but it’s all irrelevant. By the time Timbila makes their way back to the beach, Chibudu has already won immunity.

Despite the win, Okkert’s already planning ahead. He’d like to break up Gys, Hanna, and Sade by getting rid of one of the two girls.

Knowing his neck’s probably on the line, Darren goes to search for the idol. He finds something, which he assumes is immunity. He wants to target Louw, Ashley, and Izak. He suggests this to Lea, who is getting tired of him. This move would be in her best interest since it’s probably either going to be him or her, with the other one following next time.

The consensus of the tribe seems to be to vote for Darren. Unfortunately, in the South African version of the game, the idol gets played before the vote, so all they have to do is have a backup in mind, without the worrying about how best to split the votes. That said, Darren has decided to play his idol. Would have been far more interesting if he had played it afterward and took out one of the top guns with his lone vote.

Votes
Lea
Sandi
Lea
Lea
Lea
Lea

Unable to get rid of Darren, the tribe has to settle for the elimination of Lady Lea. The completely out of the loop Lea tossed a vote ProVerb’s way.

Stay tuned to dingorue for another recap of Survivor South Africa: Santa Carolina Episode 5.

Survivor South Africa: Santa Carolina Episode 2 marked the second episode in a row in which two people went home. After being cleared by medical as having nothing wrong, Jub Jub still quit, claiming he had something wrong with his inner genitals. His tribe won immunity anyway, so Timbila decided they needed to take out a threat even though it’s still really early in the game, and Cindy got the axe.

Not that anybody liked him before, but the talk of Craig being useless is resurfacing. In his effort to prove he’s useful, he breaks their hook while fishing.

ProVerb refuses to carry a giant clam back to camp. He’s afraid of it and insists it made a shrieking sound.

Treemail tells them they need to pick someone strong and light as a feather. Assuming the other tribe will pick Izak, Sade volunteers, and she gets upset when GiGi suggests that her against Izak may not be a good match. Okkert would also like to volunteer, so they pick him. Timbila as expected chooses Izak apparently without much discussion or the amount of argument that went into the other tribe’s decision.

Izak and Okkert show up for the reward challenge. It’s a duel. They would have looked pretty stupid if they chose Sade. With Okkert, they at least have a fighting chance. They must knock their opponent off the beam. Pick n Pay has put together various food items. In a pitiful start, both of the guys fall off almost immediately with nobody actually being hit. When they get back up, Izak scores first. Then Okkert scores. Okkert scores again to take the lead 2-10. Then 3-1. Chibudu wins reward. Okkert’s given a choice between receiving the reward or the clue to the idol. If he takes the clue, Izak gets the food. Horrible trade. There would be no hiding that, and it would cost him the game sooner or later. Okkert declines the deal, opting instead for the food.

Izak beats himself up over the loss, and his tribe is not very helpful, suggesting that he didn’t have a chance anyway.

When Chibudu opens up the chest, Craig takes a handful of chips. We’ve seen people gets sent home for less.

Darren remains worried that he’s on the outside. That worry is warranted. Now that his role as chef has been threatened by Sandi, his stock just dropped.

At the immunity challenge, both tribes must pick one male and one female competitor to be their load bearers. They will continue to add weight until only one person is left standing. Sandi and Darren will load water for Timbila; Sandi and Sade will load for Chibudu. Louw and Lady Lea will be the load bearers for Timbila; Okkert and Hanna will be the load bearers for Chibudu. Louw and Okkert are targeted first. They start off with 8kg (17 pounds) and will be heading up to a maximum of 100kg (220 pounds). Louw and Okkert continue to receive the weight as the challenge continues. After several minutes, Okkert has 24kg, Louw 20kg, Lea 8kg, Hanna 4kg. 15 minutes in Okkert has 52kg, Louw 40kg, Lea 20kg, Hanna 8kg. It’s around this time that it looks as if Okkert’s getting ready to buckle. After 26 minutes, Darren tells his team they need to focus on Hanna because there’s no way Okkert is going to last much longer. The first person out of the challenge is actually Louw at 80kg. Okkert, meanwhile, continues to hold strong, strangely enough finding a way to stop holding the bar and just let it rest on his shoulders. He finally drops a few minutes later at 84kg. The girls are roughly even, so it’s a matter of who can hold it longer. Lea’s been holding more weight longer, but it’s ultimately Hanna who drops. Timbila wins immunity.

Everybody has been questioning Craig for a while, making this a good opportunity to get rid of him. Craig starts looking for the idol, but he left the clue with Kaseran, so it’s all fuzzy. What he does know is that it’s on their island somewhere. This is a bit of information he shares with GiGi.

Craig says that the wrong people were picked for that challenge. Maybe GiGi should have gone up instead of Hanna.

Votes
Craig
Craig
Hanna
Craig
Craig

Craig’s luck has finally run out, and his tribe finally gets rid of somebody without it being a case of someone quitting or getting injured.

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Following a terrible start in Survivor South Africa: Santa Carolina Episode 1, Chibudu is already two people down. First, Christina lasted one whole night before deciding it was too hard, so she made up a lame excuse and quit. Then, following his challenge injury, Garth was voted out because he was barely able to walk. To make matters worse, they seem to have their next in line already picked out, having decided their “leader” Craig is useless.

Jub Jub claims he has a rash and an infection. He’s saying he wants to go home, too. Oh geez. Where did they find these idiots?

Louw is scheming with everybody. He claims his main alliance is with Izak and Kaseran, but he says that they should jump on any bandwagon they can.

After Jub Jub injures himself on some coral, medical has come in to take a look at him. Diagnosis: he has two minor cuts on the bottom of his foot. On a scale of 1-10, this injury ranks as a 2. There goes his plan to make it look like he has an actual medical problem.

When the contestants arrive at the challenge, Nico reminds them that this is Survivor. It’s supposed to be tough. Furthermore, there are a lot of people who would love to be right where they’re standing, and wouldn’t walk away because they didn’t get a good night’s sleep on the first night.

Each tribe will pick a member to be harnessed to a crane. The rest of the tribe will move that person to build a lighthouse out of puzzle pieces. They must then carry that across the beach without dropping it. If they do drop it, they’ll have to rebuild it without a mosquito. Reward is fishing gear, including a boat. Ashley and Lea sit out for Timbila. GiGi and Cindy are the mosquitoes, who will be in the harnesses. Timbila’s got the lead by a piece or two, and they are the first to complete the lighthouse. Within about two seconds, Timbila’s structure falls, allowing Chibudu to just about catch up. Having dropped their lighthouse once already, Timbilia is going extremely slowly and almost blows their large lead, but they manage to win reward by seconds. Gys is going to exile. Izak will be joining Chibudu for the night.

Izak’s happy to be away from his tribe because a couple people are already starting with the backstabbing.

With the new fishing gear, Louw has managed to catch himself a fish. If he can establish himself as the provider, he should go a long way.

That night is their first stormy one, complete with ominous black clouds and plenty of wind.

Jub Jub may or may not be quitting. Just make a move already or stop whining, dude.

Cindy has designed the shelter in her head following the rains, and now she is putting her plan into action.

Gys waits until low tide before he heads out on his search for the idol. Then he finds it. Or so he thinks he does. Nope, just another clue, telling him it’s not on that island.

Before the immunity challenge, Jub Jub wants to make an announcement. He quits because of an infection in his inner genitals, whatever that means, not wanting his manhood to rot off. For the sake of clarification, he is indeed deserting his tribe before the challenge, leaving them one additional man down.

One person for each tribe will be a codebreaker, solving a mathematical equation to lead their tribemates to keys that need to be placed in the correct boxes. Louw, Izak, and Kaseran sit out for Timbila. Ashley and Craig are the codebreakers. Craig’s first challenge is to just get the numbers out of the bag. The tribes start out guessing without the equation being done. For Chibudu, this works, but Timbila grabs the wrong key. Gys is the first one to the final platform. Gigi then joins him as Ashley and her team argue. ProVerb’s second key is right, and he makes it to the platform after Sade does. Izak is correct on box 4, giving them a clear 4-1 lead. Hanna has the final key for Chibudu, but she’ll need to make it across without falling. Timbila makes it 4-2, then 4-3, then they tie it 4-4. After making for an interesting conclusion, Chibudu nonetheless still wins immunity.

Darren’s worried. It’s quiet. Too quiet. So does that make him the target if nobody is talking to him?

Ashley suggests that Cindy’s very strong and, therefore, a threat. A little early to be getting rid of the threats and thinking of the merge. Someone who’s smart and fit should be a useful asset to a tribe at this point.

Votes
Cindy
Kaseran
Cindy
Cindy
Cindy
Cindy

Cindy has indeed been voted off the island. Strange to see the entire tribe turn on someone they consider a threat in episode 2.

Stay tuned to dingorue for another recap of Survivor South Africa: Santa Carolina Episode 3.

18 new contestants, this time celebrities, make up the Survivor South Africa: Santa Carolina cast. In addition, Mark Bayly, who hosted the first two editions and was often accused of being too wooden, has now been replaced by actor Nico Panagio.

This season we head to Santa Carolina, an island off the coast of Mozambique in East Africa that was also called Paradise Island, now a deserted paradise.

Before being tossed overboard, 7 of the contestants are told that they’ll be receiving shoes and a machete, but no more. What they don’t know is that there actually are supplies in boxes written in Portuguese, which will be lugged by an additional group of contestants. Some of the boxes contain useful supplies; some contain junk. Hopefully there’s nothing explosive in these boxes that they’re throwing down sand dunes. Given how rough they’re being with them, they’re slowly finding out what’s inside. One box contains nothing. One has golf clubs… good luck finding a green area here.

The group of 11 who remain land a little ways away from Santa Carolina. After their trek through the desert, they are told that they will be taking a boat to the island. Well, some of them will. Two people will receives votes right now. This is not an anonymous vote.

Votes
Kaseran and Jub Jub
GiGi and Craig
Kaseran and Okkert
Kaseran and Louw
Kaseran and Louw
Kaseran and Craig
Kaseran and Craig
Kaseran and Craig
Kaseran and Garth
GiGi
GiGi

Kaseran must have pissed somebody off, receiving the highest number of votes. Craig came in second last. Yeah, it’s all a trap. They will not be taking the boat. Instead, they will be flying there by helicopter, and they receive a note. When they arrive, Kaseran has decided he wants to vote out Craig, as he thought he had already done previously.

It turns out that the note leads them to a set of buffs. They are the leaders and will be able to choose their tribes. This allows Craig to believe he’s the boss. In a thoroughly chaotic picking ceremony that shows the producers have not quite found their way just yet, they choose the two tribes.

Timbila: Kaseran, Louw, Ashley, ProVerb, Lady Lea, Cindy, Darren, Sandi, Izak
Chibudu: Craig, Garth, Jub Jub, Christina, Sade, Hanna, Okkert, Gys, GiGi

The first bit of business is to fight over who gets to keep what supplies. Then one tribe heads north and the other goes south.

The immunity challenge is to hop on a platform and use a pulley to get across a platform, go to the tower and untie bags, tie the weighted bags so the tribe can swim under an obstacle, and swim to the beach where they will dig up their flag. Izak takes the lead for Timbila. Since he can begin untying and dropping bags before anybody else arrives, the other struggling tribe is losing a lot of ground. It becomes obvious pretty early what the end result of this challenge will be. Timbila wins immunity and flint.

Christina is crying about missing her daughter. Seriously? It’s day two. Day two. She wants to quit the game. The guys say the real reason is that island life is too tough for her, which she does not deny. Rather than wait until the tribal council that night and letting her tribe vote her out, she just walks away right then and there. Putz.

Craig, who already made a poor first impression, continues to rub his tribe the wrong way.

Meanwhile, Garth has injured an arm and a leg, but he refuses to go home unless they vote him out, unlike that quitter who already left. This may be Craig’s only hope of surviving another vote.

Votes
Garth
Garth
Garth
Garth
Garth

Due to his injury, Garth has been voted off the island. Since he wouldn’t have been able to get past his injury, they probably would have lost either him or Christina next episode anyway, so her quitting is now a moot point, aside from that it makes her look like a quitter.

Stay tuned to dingorue for another recap of Survivor South Africa: Santa Carolina Episode 2.

The Survivor South Africa: Santa Carolina cast consists of 18 celebrities competing for charity.

Ashley Hayden
Television Presenter
The Homestead – Projects for Street Children
Johannesburg

Christina Storm
Actress/Model
Lucinda Greyling Help Fund
Cape Town

Cindy Nell Roberts
Model/Presenter
Wag & The Chrysalis Foundation
Johannesburg

Craig Jacobs
Designer
The Trust
Cape Town

Darren Maule
Actor/Comedian
Wesley Flavell Heart Foundation
Johannesburg

Garth Collins
Actor/Comedian/MC
Guide Dogs Association for the Blind
Johannesburg

GiGi
Exotic Dancer
Hospice Houghton, Johannesburg
Johannesburg

Gys de Villiers
Actor
HOKISA
Knysna

Hanna Grobler
Actress
Hanna Charity and Empowerment Foundation
Johannesburg

Izak Davel
Singer/Actor
Ons Huis Trust
Johannesburg

Jub Jub
Rapper
The Ithuteng Trust
Johannesburg

Kaseran Pillay
Comedian/Actor
Durban Children’s Home
Johannesburg

Lady Lea
DJ/Music Producer
The Wet Nose Animal Rescue Centre
Johannesburg

Louw Venter
Actor and Comedian
MyLifE Foundation
Cape Town

Okkert Brits
Former Athlete
Give Me a Chance Foundation
Port Elizabeth

ProVerb
Recording Artist
Bophelo Care Centre, Kimberley
Johannesburg

Sade Giliberti
TV Presenter
Childline
Johannesburg

Sandi Schultz
Actress
RCCTT
Johannesburg

Lorette and Mandla finally turned on Angie in Survivor South Africa: Malaysia Episode 12, the first time all season they’ve actually done something from a gameplay standpoint. That left us with a final four of Grant, Amanda, Lorette, and Mandla. I haven’t been particularly impressed with any of the bunch, but I do have to give credit to Grant for playing the game the whole time, even if much of what he’s done hasn’t made any sense. Also, Amanda outlasting the rest of her tribe is worth noting.

The communique doesn’t beat around the bush. It warns them of an endurance competition where one of them will be eliminated. Lorette is confident about this because she had to do a lot of standing in the sun for her police training. Amanda assumes nobody will take her so she’ll have to get there on her own.

The challenge is a balancing act. They must stand on a post. The first person out will be out of the game, a twist I’m not crazy about. The last person standing will be able to choose who goes with them to the end.

For the first 15 minutes, they’re allowed to use a pole to help balance. Lorette turns around to face the other way, a smart move because she’ll remain focused on just one thing. As the largest person there, Mandla’s not surprisingly the first person out, just shy of the one and a half hour mark. Definitely a challenge designed to favor people with smaller feet. He has been eliminated from the game. At 2 hours 50 minutes, the tide rises to the rope line beneath them, which is the signal to get on one foot. What a stupid idea. All that work, and it comes down to this. Grant falls within seconds. Amanda falls seconds after that. Lorette is the last one to fall, and she wins immunity.

Believing he knows the type of person Lorette is, Grant feels he would offend her by campaigning for her to take him, so he just sits back and lets her decide on her own. Amanda, on the other hand, decides she needs to convince Lorette to take her. She says she doesn’t want to put too much pressure on her, but it’s hard to tell what Lorette’s actually thinking because Amanda just keeps getting monosyllabic grunts in response.

Lorette has chosen to take Grant with her. Not entirely surprising, and it was pretty much her only option with such a small jury. If she got rid of Grant, Angela and Dyke would have voted for Amanda, and Angie’s a big risk for voting against Lorette. Of course, Grant won’t be easy to beat, as he has been the puppetmaster of his tribe all along. He dragged Lisa along for way, way too long, then he did the same for Angie, and both of those two really shaky alliances suggest how much influence he had, as he saved people who should have been eliminated long before they were.

Even now, 4 weeks after the game began, nobody knows Grant’s an attorney.

Dyke asks Grant why he thinks Lorette does not deserve to win. He’s able to answer without offending, suggesting he played a better game.

Angela asks Lorette for examples of her proactive strategy. She discusses how she made strong alliances.

Angie wants to know how much of the relationship with Grant was real, and he says all of it was, going on about alliances and strategy and such. She obviously wants to know whether he’s actually her friend, a point which he somehow misses.

Mandla questions Grant about his strategy. Grant says he was playing all along, including not putting a target on his back in challenges, which some jury members may take offense to. He also makes a comment about Dyke, being booted for being too physically fit, and says it would have been stupid for him to have done this. Very easy for Dyke to misinterpret this and take it as an insult.

Amanda asks Lorette why their alliance played a charade, such as when Lorette said she considered Mandla her next target, which Amanda takes issue with because Lorette is always discussing integrity. Lorette says she would have taken Mandla out given the opportunity and that it wasn’t a charade.

For a lawyer, Grant stuck his foot in his mouth quite a bit during these questions. Lorette says she should win because she played hard and did her best in challenges. Grant acknowledges he came to play the game and wants them to vote on that basis.

What’s up with the delay in revealing the vote?

Angela reveals that she was pregnant while on the island but didn’t know it until afterward.

Rijesh blames the tribe shuffle for screwing up his game, when in reality he was buried by his overplaying long before.

Next, we got a look back at Survivor history, where Hein became the first person to make fire without anything manmade, along with the whining and disbelief from his tribemates that went along with it.

Hein is the winner of the viewer vote of soul survivor.

Rezki is still alive. They slaughtered another goat instead. Whatever difference that makes.

Elsie says she’s not really like she was on the show. Let’s hope that’s true.

Lisa says if she had to do it again, she might have lifted a finger.

Hein comes up with two scenarios about the challenge that cost him the game. He either fell asleep or was tired of playing. Looks like it’s still up to us to figure out what actually happened. My theory is that he just simply misjudged the time.

Votes
Dyke: Lorette
Angela: Grant
Mandla: Lorette
Amanda: Grant
Angie: Lorette

As much as I liked Lorette, it’s hard to see what she actually did in this game to deserve to win. I must say I’m shocked that Angie voted for Lorette, but ultimately, for someone who played the game so hard the whole time, Grant did completely screw up Angie’s question.

I’m not sure whether Angie ever actually figured out which side she was on in Survivor South Africa: Malaysia episode 11, but in the end, she won immunity, so she was safe from everybody turning on her. Angela followed her buddy Hein out of the game.

Amanda hasn’t lost hope yet. She continues to scramble, questioning Lorette as to why the alleged alliance is really just Grant and Angie calling the shots, as it has been. At this point, for someone to take on the swing vote would be smart, as it’s final three rather than final four. Of course, there is the added danger of the jury being heavily stacked in Amanda’s favor, though a 5 person jury detracts from that. Lorette and Angie remain sick of each other. Now Mandla’s joining in. Angie hopes they’ll (continue to) be stupid enough to keep her around to honor their word.

Reward challenge is an interesting one. They will hang and support their own body weight while trying to remember a sequence of numbers. When all of them drop, they’ll then need to record those numbers. All of them will start the memory part of the challenge at the same time, so the longer they can hang on, the longer they will have to memorize and also the less time they will have to forget. Reward is a visit from family and friends. Mandla’s mom and sister, Angie’s friends, Lorette’s husband and best friend, Grant’s wife and best friend, and Amanda’s mom and sister are all there to greet them. And for some reason it’s sponsored by KFC. The winner will get a feast with their loved ones at camp.

Grant drops first, closely followed by Angie, Amanda, and then Lorette. A buff Mandla obviously hangs in the longest. Angie barely bothered to fill it out, not even making an effort to put something random. She’s first out. Amanda is out after another two numbers. Lorette is out after the first number of the second line. Grant’s next out, and Mandla wins reward. The thing about Mandla is that, despite how much of a physical threat he is, everybody’s so caught up in personality clashes they’re not even concerned about him. Everybody is happy to have someone new to talk with and seems to appreciate having Mandla’s family there.

The tribe has run out of rice and tapioca. Angie considers the hunt for new food sources a waste of energy. While they’re searching, Mandla says “I’ll let you into a secret” to Angie. Then he sees Lorette standing right there. So no secret is shared. Lorette gets (more) suspicious of Angie. In the process, Grant gets dragged into it. Angie ultimately shakes Lorette’s hand and promises to take her to the final four. Mandla offers his immunity idol to Lorette as a gesture to gain her trust, but she doesn’t want it.

The immunity challenge is called the abdominator. They are stretched out across a rack, hands on one set of bars, feet on another. After the first person drops out, they will move their hands one bar forward, then they will move their feet up further after the next person it out, then they will move their hands out further after the last. Grant’s out first. He is followed by Angie. Amanda goes to switch positions and drops down in the process, so she also is eliminated. Angie starts to root for Lorette during the challenge. Lorette asks Mandla to throw the challenge for her, and he does. A little too obviously, though, as Angie knows what happened.

Angie asks Mandla if he knows who he’s voting for. He says he hasn’t decided. She knows that means it’s between her and Amanda. Angie feels pretty safe because she got Lorette’s word, and she feels this is Survivor: Brady Bunch, where nobody wants to actually play the game.

Mandla uses the hidden idol because this is the last time he can use it.

Votes:
Amanda
Angie
Amanda
Angie
Angie

As much as I’ve disliked Angie, I was starting to like her. She and Grant may not exactly be playing the game well, but at least they’re playing, whereas Lorette and Mandla have just been along for the ride until now. Like he did with Lisa, Grant again found himself backing the wrong horse for too long.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another recap of Survivor South Africa: Malaysia episode 13, and don’t forget our continuing coverage of Survivor: China.