Survivor: Panama is the first season of the South African version of Survivor. The premiere aired on the 3rd of September 2006.
Vanessa Marawa defeated Jacinda Louw in a 3-2 vote, winning the R1 million prize.
Production
A South African version of global reality phenomenon Survivor was announced by pay channel M-Net on Tuesday 11 April 2006, and was filmed on the Pearl Islands in the Gulf of Panama from June 6.
In Survivor: Panama (South Africa) 14 contestants were chosen from a shortlist of 700, with six additional contestants selected as replacements in case any of the original 14 were unable to take part through injury or other reasons. Entries opened for the show on April 11 and closed on May 15. More than 18,000 South Africans applied to be on the show. Pierre van Niekerk (49), a resident of Rietfontein in Pretoria, entered 1,000 times.
The show was filmed from June 6, 2006 until early July.
On July 16 M-Net announced the host of the show - Capetonian Mark Bayly, who auditioned to be a contestant and was hired as presenter instead.
Survivor: Panama (South Africa) was filmed in the Pearl Islands at the same time as five other Survivor productions: Holland, Denmark, Greece, Sweden and Turkey.[1]
Twists/Changes
- 29 Days: Instead of the usual 39 days of the other versions of Survivor, the first season of Survivor (South Africa) was filmed in 29 days. This would change to 27 days for the next seasons.
- Unexpected Start: The contestant were being taken to a place to take some pictures to promote the season, when the pilot of the plane they were faked a emergency landing nearby a Panamanian village. The host then appeared to announce that the game had started. The tribes were divided and they were told that they would have only their belongs that could fit in one back pack for each tribe.
- Future Vote: After Jude Wilken had quit at Tribal Council, the host Mark Bayly announced to the remaining Aguila tribe they would still have to vote. After Mark read the votes, he announced that the person who had received the majority of the votes would already have a vote casted against him/her at their next Tribal Council.
- Life Donation: As Sanele Gumede was medevaced, his torch wasn't extinguished. At Rana's Tribal Council next night, he showed up to give his life to the person that was voted out, who will be joining the Aguila tribe in his place.
- Dead Man's Island: Starting at the merge, the castaways voted out at Tribal Council would be exiled to an island called Dead Man's Island without knowledge of the castaways remaining at the game, where they would wait to compete for two spots to re-enter the game at the Final Three.
- Semi-Finals: At the second Final Four, the castaways would compete in a challenge where the first person out would be eliminated from the game, the last person standing would be the first finalist, and the other two people would compete in another challenge to define the second finalist.
Castaways
| Contestant | Tribe Affiliation | Finish | Dead Man's Island Status |
Votes Against | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Original Tribe | Switched Tribe | Merged Tribe | |||||
| File:Sa1 don t.png | Don Soper 55, Johannesburg |
Rana | 1st Voted Out Day 3 |
4 | |||
| File:Sa1 sam t.png | Sam Allerton 30, Cape Town |
Aguila | 2nd Voted Out Day 6 |
5 | |||
| File:Sa1 jude t.png | Jude Wilken 39, Kempton Park |
Aguila | Quit Day 8 |
0 | |||
| File:Sa1 ncumisa t.png | Ncumisa Ngcaweni 30, Cape Town |
Rana | 3th Voted Out Day 10 |
4 | |||
| File:Sa1 sanele t.png | Sanele Gumede 27, Johannesburg |
Aguila | Evacuated Day 12 |
0 | |||
| File:Sa1 danielle t.png | Danielle Vukic 35, Cape Town |
Rana | Aguila | 4th Voted Out Day 14 |
11 | ||
| File:Sa1 nico t.png | Nico Hinis 43, Johannesburg |
Aguila | Aguila | 5th Voted Out Day 16 |
8 | ||
| File:Sa1 lezel t.png | Lezel Crook 28, Cape Town |
Rana | Rana | Burba | 9th Voted Out Day 24 |
1st Eliminated Day 27 1st Jury Member |
9 |
| File:Sa1 brigitte t.png | Brigitte Willers 26, Johannesburg |
Aguila | Aguila | 6th Voted Out Day 19 |
2nd Eliminated Day 27 2nd Jury Member |
6 | |
| File:Sa1 gareth t.png | Gareth Tjasink 27, Cape Town |
Rana | Rana | 10th Voted Out 3rd Jury Member Day 27 |
3 | ||
| File:Sa1 zayn t.png | Zayn Nabbi 24, Durban |
Rana | Rana | Eliminated 4th Jury Member Day 28 |
4 | ||
| File:Sa1 mzi t.png | Mzi Tyhokolo 31, Johannesburg |
Aguila | Aguila | 7th Voted Out Day 21 |
Returned Day 27 |
6 | |
| Eliminated 5th Jury Member Day 28 |
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| File:Sa1 jacinda t.png | Jacinda Louw 25, Johannesburg |
Rana | Rana | Runner-Up | 1 | ||
| File:Sa1 vanessa t.png | Vanessa Marawa 27, Durban |
Aguila | Aguila | 8th Voted Out Day 22 |
Returned Day 27 |
6 | |
| Sole Survivor | |||||||
Season Summary
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Episode Guide
| Episode | Air Date | Dead Man's Island | Challenges | Voted Off | Vote | Status | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inhabitant(s) | Finish | Reward | Immunity | |||||
| Episode 1 | September 3, 2006 | Aguila | Aguila | Don | 4-3 | 1st Voted Out Day 3 | ||
| Episode 2 | September 10, 2006 | Aguila | Rana | Sam | 5-2 | 2nd Voted Out Day 6 | ||
| Episode 3 | September 17, 2006 | Aguila | Rana | Jude | No Vote | Quit Day 8 | ||
| Episode 4 | September 24, 2006 | Aguila | Aguila | Ncumisa | 4-2 | 3rd Voted Out Day 10 | ||
| Rana | ||||||||
| Episode 5 | October 1, 2006 | Aguila | Aguila | Sanele | No Vote | Evacuated Day 12 | ||
| Danielle | 3-2 | Switched Tribes[1] Day 14 | ||||||
| Episode 6 | October 8, 2006 | Aguila | Rana | Danielle | 3-2-1 | 4th Voted Out Day 14 | ||
| Episode 7 | October 15, 2006 | Rana | Rana | Nico | 3-1 | 5th Voted Out Day 16 | ||
| Episode 8 | October 22, 2006 | Gareth | Brigitte | 4-3 | 6th Voted Out Day 19 | |||
| Episode 9 | October 29, 2006 | Brigitte | Jacinda [Lezel] |
Gareth | Mzi | 4-2 | 7th Voted Out Day 21 | |
| Episode 10 | November 5, 2006 | Brigitte, Mzi |
Vanessa [Gareth] |
Gareth | Vanessa | 4-1 | 8th Voted Out Day 22 | |
| Episode 11 | November 12, 2006 | Brigitte, Mzi Vanessa |
Gareth | Gareth | Lezel | 3-1 | 9th Voted Out Day 24 | |
| Episode 12 | November 19, 2006 | Lezel | 1st Eliminated 1st Jury Member Day 27 |
Mzi | Gareth | 3-1-1 | 10th Voted Out 3rd Jury Member Day 27 | |
| Brigitte | 2nd Eliminated 2nd Jury Member Day 27 | |||||||
| Mzi | Returned Day 27 | |||||||
| Vanessa | Returned Day 27 | |||||||
| Episode 13 | November 26, 2006 | Vanessa | Zayn | No Vote | Eliminated 4th Jury Member Day 28 | |||
| Mzi | No Vote | Eliminated 5th Jury Member Day 29 | ||||||
| Finale | Jury Vote | Jacinda | 3-2 | Runner Up | ||||
| Vanessa | Sole Survivor | |||||||
^Sanele "gave his life" to the person voted at the Tribal Counicl after his evacuation. Danielle was not voted out, and instead changed tribes to Aguila.
Voting History
| Survivor South Africa: Panama Voting History | ||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tribes | Original Tribes | Post-Day 13 Tribes |
Merged Tribe | |||||||||||||||
| Episode: | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | Finale | ||||
| Voted Off: | File:Sa1 don t.png Don |
File:Sa1 sam t.png Sam |
File:Sa1 jude t.png Jude |
File:Sa1 ncumisa t.png Ncumisa |
File:Sa1 sanele t.png Sanele |
File:Sa1 danielle t.png Danielle |
File:Sa1 danielle t.png Danielle |
File:Sa1 nico t.png Nico |
File:Sa1 brigitte t.png Brigitte |
File:Sa1 mzi t.png Mzi |
File:Sa1 vanessa t.png Vanessa |
File:Sa1 lezel t.png Lezel |
File:Sa1 gareth t.png Gareth |
File:Sa1 zayn t.png Zayn |
File:Sa1 mzi t.png Mzi |
File:Sa1 jacinda t.png Jacinda |
File:Sa1 vanessa t.png Vanessa | |
| Vote: | 4-3 | 5-2 | No Vote[2] | 4-2 | No Vote[3] | 3-2[4] | 3-2-1 | 3-1 | 4-3 | 4-2 | 4-1 | 3-1 | 3-1-1 | No Vote | No Vote | 3-2 | ||
| ►► | Vanessa | — | Sam | Nico | — | — | — | Danielle | Nico | Lezel | Lezel | Lezel | Gareth | — | — | Jury Vote | ||
| ►► | Jacinda | Don | — | — | Ncumisa | — | Zayn | — | — | Brigitte | Mzi | Vanessa | Lezel | Gareth | — | — | ||
| ►► | Mzi | — | Sam | Nico | — | — | — | Danielle | Nico | Lezel | Lezel | Gareth | — | Eliminated | Vanessa | |||
| ►► | Zayn | Don | — | — | Danielle | — | Danielle | — | — | Brigitte | Mzi | Vanessa | Lezel | Jacinda | Eliminated | Vanessa | ||
| ►► | Gareth | Don | — | — | Ncumisa | — | Danielle | — | — | Brigitte | Mzi | Vanessa | Lezel | Zayn | Jacinda | |||
| ►► | Brigitte | — | Vanessa | Nico | — | — | — | Mzi | Nico | Lezel | Vanessa | |||||||
| ►► | Lezel | Danielle | — | — | Ncumisa | — | Danielle | — | — | Brigitte | Mzi | Vanessa | Zayn | Jacinda | ||||
| ►► | Nico | — | Sam | Brigitte | — | — | — | Danielle | Brigitte | |||||||||
| ►► | Danielle | Don | — | — | Ncumisa | — | Zayn | Nico | ||||||||||
| ►► | Sanele | — | Sam | Nico | — | Evacuated | ||||||||||||
| ►► | Ncumisa | Danielle | — | — | Danielle | |||||||||||||
| ►► | Jude | — | Sam | Quit | ||||||||||||||
| ►► | Sam | — | Vanessa | |||||||||||||||
| ►► | Don | Danielle | ||||||||||||||||
^Jude quit the game after she felt worried for her health. Instead of leaving, Nico received an additional vote at his next Tribal Council.
^Sanele left the game for medical reasons.
^Danielle was not voted out, and instead changed tribes to Aguila.
^Sanele left the game for medical reasons.
^Danielle was not voted out, and instead changed tribes to Aguila.
Trivia
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