SurvivorSouth Africa is a South Africanreality 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. All first five seasons of the show were produced by Endemol and broadcast on M-Net. Season 6 and 7 is produced by Afrokaans Film & Television The first two seasons were hosted by , and from the third season Nico Panagio took over the hosting duties.
Format
The showfollows the same general format as the other editions of the show. The players are split between two "tribes", are taken to a remote island and are forced to live off the land with meagre supplies for an extended period of time. Frequent physical and mental challenges are used to pit the teams 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 off one of their players. Once about half of the players are remaining, those who remain are merged into a single tribe, and competitions are on an individual basis; winning immunity prevents that player from being voted out. Most players that are voted out at this stage form the "Tribal Council Jury". Once down to two people, a final Tribal Council is held where the remaining players plead their case to the Jury as to why they should win the game. The jury then votes for which player should be considered the "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 titularIsland of Secrets and the upcoming ', and non-playing Captains in Champions, kidnappings, tribe expansions and shuffles. Voting advantages and disadvantages, and in the first season, ' introduced a Deadman's Island where contestants voted out after the merge was isolated from the game until an opportunity to return arose.
