Survivor South Africa Season 6, Episode 16: Philippines Finale & Reunion

Episode 1

Eighteen castaways were marooned in the Philippines and split into their tribes on a Bangka. Nico immediately introduced the first reward challenge of the season to the two tribes, Luzon (Red) and Mindanao (Blue).

72 min

Episode 2

In low spirits after nearly being eliminated at Tribal Council the previous night, Tom sought to solidify his position with the voting block of Ace, Annalize, Chané and Neil, all the while proving to his tribe that he could make fire by eventually starting the tribe's fire. Over at Mindanao, the mood of the camp was that Marthunis was the primary target if they went to Tribal Council to keep tribal morale up.

46 min

Episode 3

After Neil's blindside, Tom furiously told off Palesa, Josie, Vusi and Ace when they celebrated by the campfire. The morning after, Tom expressed his desire to get rid of Ace for flipping on the Big 5 alliance as soon as possible. At Mindanao, PK's paranoia of an all-woman's alliance led by Jeanne and Stacey-Lee was getting on the nerves of Tevin, leaving the two women feeling on the bottom when they felt that Marthunis should there instead.

46 min

Episode 4

After Tribal Council, Marthunis' fallout had put Werner, Tevin, and Toni on edge with the tantrum he threw, despite plans being made that they were pretending that Marthunis was on the outs, while Jeanne was still unaware of how close she was to being voted out instead of Stacey-Lee. The morning of Day 9 saw the tribes being redistributed from two to three, introducing a new yellow tribe called Visayas, before the reward challenge. Palesa claimed a clue to a hidden immunity idol during the tribe shuffle.

46 min

Episode 5

The morning after Tribal Council, Josie resolved herself to continue looking for the idol on the new Luzon beach, feeling the pressure of being the last original Luzon member in the tribe. While over at Mindanao, Marthunis confided to PK that he was considering voting for Tevin at the next Tribal Council, causing PK and Tevin to sit him down and reign him back into their alliance of three. Tensions at Visayas between Tom and Palesa were building as both of them were trying to sway Murishca to side with their alliance.

46 min

Episode 6

The morning of Day 13 started with Chané decided that she needed to step away from Tom, after he foolishly played their idol on himself after Murishca had resigned herself from the game. She approached Palesa and Vusi to inform them she was done following Tom. At Mindanao, the tribe's frustration with Marthunis' erratic behaviour was reaching a breaking point, with Marthunis himself noticing he was backing himself into a corner he couldn't get out of.

46 min

Episode 7

After the surprise shuffle vote at Tribal Council, Annalize and Josie both felt nothing had changed as being the only original Luzon on each tribe, though both Luzon and Mindanao were now openly planning for the eventual merge. With Toni moving back to Mindanao, Werner grew paranoid about his position in Luzon. Jeanne openly plotting with Annalize made Werner consider flipping to original Luzon once the merge occurred. At Mindanao, Tevin felt Josie's intellect and beauty would be a distraction for him, and that he'd need to get rid of her before it would be too late.

45 min

Episode 8

After Tevin's blindside, Mindanao felt certain that they had flipped the game away from original tribal lines before the merge had even began. Werner had resigned himself to sticking with the women at Luzon to the end of the game, sticking to a social approach at camp. Jeanne and the women considered Werner as their shield to get to the end. Katinka started to step up in the strategic discussions around camp, and approaching Werner and Annalize about taking out Jeanne if push comes to shove. Visayas had depleted their food supply and were desperate for reward.

45 min

Episode 9

A depleted and exhausted PK and Toni on Mindanao found out on the morning of Day 22 that they had made it to the merge, alongside Visayas and Luzon. Gathered to a merge feast and a new tribe beach, the final 10 formed the merge tribe of Araw. Straight off the bat, Vusi and Werner approached each other about a potential alliance to remove Tom, while PK was adamant on flipping on the original Mindanao to take out Jeanne first and Tom second, to Toni's annoyance. Meanwhile, the women and Werner of original Mindanao had their sights set on Vusi due to his challenge performances.

46 min

Episode 10

The Mindanao alliance comforted a crying Katinka, who received votes from the Visayas camp except for Tom. While the women supported her, PK rationalized why the Visayas alliance had voted the way they did.

45 min

Episode 11

Furious after finding out that the majority alliance wanted to take out PK, Toni blew up on Werner aligning himself with weaker players like Katinka, who had given PK enough information that he was the target for the vote, instead of his original alliance with her. The women started to distance themselves from Toni as her emotional backlash was getting to young Katinka's nerves.

45 min

Episode 12

The previous Tribal Council revealed to Werner and the majority alliance that Toni had finally realized that the original Mindanao alliance is dead, and that her days are numbered without flipping people from the majority. However, the alliance still wanted Toni and PK out, with Tom as a back-up plan. Annalize was threatened by Jeanne's performances at Tribal Council despite her lack of strategic gameplay.

45 min

Episode 13

Stunned by Toni's parting words, Werner and Jeanne laughed at the perception that they were running the show on Araw, given that Katinka was the one who gave the orders to vote out Toni at the last Tribal Council. Using Katinka's inability to keep a secret about her alliances' goals, PK tried to stir up camp life by informing Tom of the final 3 deal Tom has with Werner and Katinka.

46 min

Episode 14

The last Tribal Council left Jeanne furious that her game was constantly berated by people joining the jury, with Werner acknowledging that possibly voting out Jeanne might calm a potential jury. Annalize informed Katinka that she had an extra vote from Exile Island. Katinka approached Tom with a plan to blindside Werner, but Tom went to Werner afterwards to reveal Katinka's plotting against the pastor.

46 min

Episode 15

Stunned by the previous vote, Jeanne was grateful for Werner saving her game with the immunity idol. Werner consolidated a final two deal with Tom, knowing that at least Jeanne and Tom would take him to the end if such a scenario.

45 min

Episode 17

30 min