Survivor Africa: Panama, was the first pan-regional season of the popular tv show Survivor

Survivor (TV series)

Survivor is a reality television game show format produced in many countries throughout the world. In the show, contestants are isolated in the wilderness and compete for cash and other prizes. The show uses a system of progressive elimination, allowing the contestants to vote off other tribe...

 to air in central or southern Africa

Africa

Africa is the world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area...

 and it included contestants from the countries of Botswana

Botswana

Botswana, officially the Republic of Botswana , is a landlocked country located in Southern Africa. The citizens are referred to as "Batswana" . Formerly the British protectorate of Bechuanaland, Botswana adopted its new name after becoming independent within the Commonwealth on 30 September 1966...

, Ethiopia

Ethiopia

Ethiopia , officially known as the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a country located in the Horn of Africa. It is the second-most populous nation in Africa, with over 82 million inhabitants, and the tenth-largest by area, occupying 1,100,000 km2...

, Ghana

Ghana

Ghana , officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country located in West Africa. It is bordered by Côte d'Ivoire to the west, Burkina Faso to the north, Togo to the east, and the Gulf of Guinea to the south...

, Kenya

Kenya

Kenya , officially known as the Republic of Kenya, is a country in East Africa that lies on the equator, with the Indian Ocean to its south-east...

, Namibia

Namibia

Namibia, officially the Republic of Namibia , is a country in southern Africa whose western border is the Atlantic Ocean. It shares land borders with Angola and Zambia to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south and east. It gained independence from South Africa on 21 March...

, Nigeria

Nigeria

Nigeria , officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a federal constitutional republic comprising 36 states and its Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. The country is located in West Africa and shares land borders with the Republic of Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east, and Niger in...

, Zambia

Zambia

Zambia , officially the Republic of Zambia, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. The neighbouring countries are the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the north, Tanzania to the north-east, Malawi to the east, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana and Namibia to the south, and Angola to the west....

, and Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe is a landlocked country located in the southern part of the African continent, between the Zambezi and Limpopo rivers. It is bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the southwest, Zambia and a tip of Namibia to the northwest and Mozambique to the east. Zimbabwe has three...

. The show was broadcast on the channel M-net

M-Net

M-Net is a subscription-funded television channel in South Africa, established in 1986 by Naspers....

 from September 3, 2006 to November 19, 2006 during which time twelve episodes aired. The contestants for this season were initially split into two tribes, the Embera tribe, named after Panama's semi-nomadic and heavily body-painted tribe, who's buffs were blue and the Kuna tribe, named after a traditionally matriarchal and politically organised people of Panama

Panama

Panama , officially the Republic of Panama , is the southernmost country of Central America. Situated on the isthmus connecting North and South America, it is bordered by Costa Rica to the northwest, Colombia to the southeast, the Caribbean Sea to the north and the Pacific Ocean to the south. The...

, who's buffs were red. During the pre-merge portion of the program the Embera tribe dominated as they won the majority of both the reward and immunity challenges while Kuna saw their numbers dwindle from six to three. When the tribes merged into the Nagual tribe their buff colors may have changed to yellow, but their original tribal alliances remained ad the former members of Embera quickly voted out Yagazie "Yaga" Chuwumerje
and Nana Sarpong, leaving Metasebia "Meti" Yilma as the only former Kuna member left in the game. Following the elimination of Nana, Tsholofelo "Tebby" Gasenelwe approached Meti and Olanike "Nike" Gbolahan about forming an all girl alliance. Once formed, the girl alliance, along with Jeremiah Zulu voted out both Leonard Mapuranga and the leader of the former Embera alliance, Derrick Assetto. When it came time for the final four, the contestants competed in two challenges in order to determine the final two. The first of these challenges was the infamous "plank" challenge. As Meti was the first person to fall of the plank she was eliminated from the game. As Tebby was the last person to fall off the plank she automatically advanced to the final two. The other two contestants competed in a second challenge which Jeremiah won and advanced to the final two while Nike was eliminated. Ultimately, it was Tsholofelo "Tebby" Gasenelwe from Botswana who won this season over Jeremiah Zulu with a jury vote of 6-0.

Finishing order

Contestant	Original Tribes	Merged Tribe	Finish
Chipo Nzonzo 35, Harare Harare Harare before 1982 known as Salisbury) is the largest city and capital of Zimbabwe. It has an estimated population of 1,600,000, with 2,800,000 in its metropolitan area . Administratively, Harare is an independent city equivalent to a province. It is Zimbabwe's largest city and its...	Kuna
Ariomawha "Ario" Okenabirhie 32, Warri	Embera
Lloyd Kalipinde 25, Lusaka Lusaka Lusaka is the capital and largest city of Zambia. It is located in the southern part of the central plateau, at an elevation of about 1,300 metres . It has a population of about 1.7 million . It is a commercial centre as well as the centre of government, and the four main highways of Zambia head...	Kuna
Frieda Karipi 29, Windhoek Windhoek Windhoek is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Namibia. It is located in central Namibia in the Khomas Highland plateau area, at around above sea level. The 2001 census determined Windhoek's population was 233,529...	Kuna
Yagazie "Yaga" Chuwumerje 23, Lagos Lagos Lagos is a port and the most populous conurbation in Nigeria. With a population of 7,937,932, it is currently the third most populous city in Africa after Cairo and Kinshasa, and currently estimated to be the second fastest growing city in Africa...	Kuna	Nagual
Nana Sarpong 30, Accra Accra Accra is the capital and largest city of Ghana, with an urban population of 1,658,937 according to the 2000 census. Accra is also the capital of the Greater Accra Region and of the Accra Metropolitan District, with which it is coterminous...	Kuna
Leonard Mapuranga 24, Harare Harare Harare before 1982 known as Salisbury) is the largest city and capital of Zimbabwe. It has an estimated population of 1,600,000, with 2,800,000 in its metropolitan area . Administratively, Harare is an independent city equivalent to a province. It is Zimbabwe's largest city and its...	Embera
Derrick Assetto 29, Nairobi Nairobi Nairobi is the capital and largest city of Kenya. The city and its surrounding area also forms the Nairobi County. The name "Nairobi" comes from the Maasai phrase Enkare Nyirobi, which translates to "the place of cool waters". However, it is popularly known as the "Green City in the Sun" and is...	Embera
Metasebia "Meti" Yilma 27, Dire Dawa Dire Dawa Dire Dawa is one of two chartered cities in Ethiopia . This chartered city is divided administratively into two woredas, the city proper and the non-urban woreda of Gurgura....	Kuna
Olanike "Nike" Gbolahan 24, Lagos Lagos Lagos is a port and the most populous conurbation in Nigeria. With a population of 7,937,932, it is currently the third most populous city in Africa after Cairo and Kinshasa, and currently estimated to be the second fastest growing city in Africa...	Embera
Jeremiah Zulu 26, Lusaka Lusaka Lusaka is the capital and largest city of Zambia. It is located in the southern part of the central plateau, at an elevation of about 1,300 metres . It has a population of about 1.7 million . It is a commercial centre as well as the centre of government, and the four main highways of Zambia head...	Embera
Tsholofelo "Tebby" Gasenelwe 24, Gaborone Gaborone ' is the capital and largest city of Botswana with a population of 191,776 based on a 2006 survey, about 10% of the total population of Botswana....	Embera

The game

First air date	Challenges		Eliminated	Vote	Finish
	Reward	Immunity
September 3, 2006	Embera	None
September 10, 2006	Embera	Embera	Chipo	4-2	1st Voted Out Day 3
September 17, 2006	Kuna	Kuna	Ario	4-2	2nd Voted Out Day 6
September 24, 2006	Embera	Embera	Lloyd	3-1-1	3rd Voted Out Day 9
October 1, 2006	Kuna	Embera	Frieda	3-1	4th Voted Out Day 12
October 8, 2006	Yaga	None
October 15, 2006	Yaga, [Leonard]	Jeremiah	Yaga	4-3-1	5th Voted Out 1st Jury Member Day 14
October 22, 2006	Tebby, [Nike]	Tebby	Nana	5-1-1	6th Voted Out 2nd Jury Member Day 16
October 29, 2006	Derrick, [Leonard]	Derrick	Leonard	4-2	7th Voted Out 3rd Jury Member Day 18
November 5, 2006	Tebby, [Meti]	Jeremiah	Derrick	4-1	8th Voted Out 4th Jury Member Day 20
November 12, 2006	None	Tebby	Meti	No Vote	Lost Challenge 5th Jury Member Day 21
		Jeremiah	Nike		Lost Challenge 6th Jury Member Day 21
November 19, 2006	Jury Vote		Jeremiah	6-0	Runner-Up
			Tebby		Sole Survivor

Voting history

	Original Tribes				Merged Tribe
Episode #:	2	3	4	5	7	8	9	10	11		Reunion
Eliminated:	Chipo	Ario	Lloyd	Frieda	Yaga	Nana	Leonard	Derrick	Meti	Nike	Jeremiah	Tebby
Voter	|Vote
Tebby		Ario			Yaga	Nana	Leonard	Derrick	Won		Jury Vote
Jeremiah		Ario			Yaga	Nana	Leonard	Derrick		Won
Nike		Derrick			Nana	Nana	Leonard	Derrick		Lost		Tebby
Meti	Chipo		Frieda	Frieda	Derrick	Derrick	Leonard	Derrick	Lost			Tebby
Derrick		Ario			Yaga	Nana	Meti	Nike				Tebby
Leonard		Ario			Yaga	Nana	Meti					Tebby
Nana	Chipo		Lloyd	Frieda	Derrick	Jeremiah						Tebby
Yaga	Chipo		Lloyd	Frieda	Derrick							Tebby
Frieda	Meti		Lloyd	Meti
Lloyd	Chipo		Nana
Ario		Derrick
Chipo	Meti

External links

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