by Thinus Ferreira
The first season of Love Island South Africa ended on M-Net (DStv 101) after 6 weeks on Sunday night with fan favourites and romantic couple Thimna and Libho, better known as "Limna", who won R1 million in a landslide victory in the reality show after getting over 53% of the total 1.6 million votes that were cast over the past week by viewers.
The Eastern Cape based had more than half of the entire vote in the Rapid Blue produced show, with the other 47% that were divided by 30% going to Millie Terblanche and Asad Boomgaard, followed by Mischka Najar and Xavier Haupt with over 12%, and finally Ross Marshall and Tania Kera in 4th place with just over 2% in vote share
The student-athlete and freelance model
Libho (23), who hails from King Williams Town in the Eastern Cape, said that
the win was "completely overwhelming".
"I feel great, to be honest, it hasn't
sunk in yet. But my biggest prize is being able to call Thimna my girlfriend,
so everything else feels like the icing on the cake."
The Mossel Bay-born, Thimna (26) said "I am
so grateful to everyone who voted for Libho and I. My experience has been such
an eye-opener. I realised so many things – good and bad – and I am so grateful
for the lessons".
The vote count and ranking of
contestants in the local adaptation of the ITV Studios format show was independently re-calculated by Deloitte & Touche based on
the votes received and the voting rules and M-Net says that the re-calculated results were
confirmed against the voting results determined by and provided by M-Net.
Episodes of Love Island SA will remain available on MultiChoice's DStv Catch-Up until 10 May 2021.
