Survivor South Africa: Malaysia

One of the castaways – Lorette Mostert – was chosen by fans as a wildcard.

With a larger cast of 16 players, the season began with two tribes of eight, Bajau and Iban. Bajau started off the game divided between two factions; those who worked harder to build and look after their camp, and the rest who were more interested in the strategic game. The strategic Bajau united under Elsie and Rijesh to vote out the oldest female worker of the tribe, Nicole, to keep the begrudging provider of the tribe, Hein, to keep the tribe looked after for challenges. At Iban, an alliance between Grant, Lorette (the public wildcard winner), Mandla, Angie, and Viwe were starting to form, until the Malaysian conditions led to Viwe becoming erratic about his allegiances, sending him home early over the Iban outsider, Lisa.

A sudden tribe shuffle at the fourth immunity challenge saw Bajau become a physically overpowering tribe, with Elsie being injured at the challenge where she needed immediate medical attention. The loss also saw the new Iban tribe be sent to a daytime Tribal Council immediately after the challenge, where her own original Bajau allies chose to vote Elsie out to make sure she got the medical intervention she needed despite being in the majority. With his biggest ally gone, Rijesh was voted out shortly after as fellow Bajau, Amanda, grew suspicious of his strategic prowess. The new Bajau saw Grant and Hein agree to a mutual truce to help pick off Nichal and Lisa as tribe and alliance outsiders. Shortly before the merge, an outnumbered Angie in the new Iban tribe started to get restless, and sided with the Bajau originals to vote out Irshaad, as his energetic behaviour kept disrupting camp life and yielding challenge losses for Iban.

The tribes merged on Day 18 to form Empu, with 4 original Bajau and Iban members sticking to their original tribal lines. A tie-breaker challenge between Hein and Lorette saw Hein fumble his way out of the game, giving the Iban alliance majority. Fellow Bajau, Dyke and Angela, were sent to the jury back-to-back, until at the Final 5, Angie's boredom with her alliance's control of the merge started to alienate Lorette and her closest ally, Mandla. Bringing in Amanda, Lorette and Mandla blindsided their own alliance to take out Angie for her unpredictable loyalties. On Day 26, the Final Four competed in another balancing endurance challenge (repeating the Final Four challenge in Panama), where Mandla shockingly fell into the water first, sending him to the jury, while Lorette won immunity for the penultimate Tribal Council. Despite giving Amanda an opportunity to plead her case over her alliance leader, Grant, Lorette voted out Amanda, concerned that her status as the last surviving Bajau member would give her a strong case at Final Tribal Council.

The Final Tribal Council saw the jury interrogate Grant's strategic game as the leader of the Iban alliance, pointing out that Lorette never broke her loyalties with Mandla while keeping up a good work ethic in her tribes throughout the game. In the end, the jury decided to reward Lorette for her general ethic around camp and her need as a police officer for the grand prize financially, over Grant, making Lorette South Africa's second Ultimate Survivor.

Jury vote
Episode	13
Day	27
Finalist	Lorette	Grant
Votes	3–2
Juror	Vote
Amanda
Mandla
Angie
Angela
Dyke

Notes

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