It’s Survivor time
On Thursday 3 June, Survivor South Africa (2006-now) host Nico Panagio returns to welcome 20 new Survivors to South Africa’s remote Wild Coast bush in the Eastern Cape, where they will battle to outwit, outplay and outlast each other in its jungles and beaches over the course of 39 days, in Survivor South Africa: Immunity Island season 8, Thursdays on M-Net (*101) at 19:30.
There are snakes and skulls everywhere. The Tribal Council area features the gnarled and bleached remains of ancient trees and driftwood, with skulls scattered about, including this season’s symbol, a realistic woven vegetable fibre skull with a metal snake slithering above the top and through the eye sockets. The urn that’ll contain the contestants’ votes has handles shaped like a snake’s body. And the castaways’ torches are topped with asnake wrapped around a skull, with the snake looping through the eye sockets. The contestants, aged between 24 and 39, are split into two tribes for this season –Vuna (traffic cone orange) and
