It’s Munya against the other four

Last Sunday, Botswana’s Kaone and Angola’s Tatiana were evicted from the Big Brother house just seven days before the winner of the US$200 000 prize is announced.
Of the remaining housemates on this year’s the All Stars edition, Tanzanian, Mwisho, is the only one that has not gone up against Munya for eviction. No housemate has been up for nomination on more occasions than Munya, and none has survived more.
During week one he survived the mock eviction, which saw Kaone and Tatiana momentarily leaving the house.
During week three he went up against Lerato and survived. Lerato (South Africa) was to be evicted to the Barn but later came back courtesy of a random wildcard selection.
When Sheila (Kenya) was head of the house in week four, she saved herself and put Tatiana up her in place, against Munya. An event that saw Tatiana evicted to the Barn.
During week six Munya went up against Sheila and again he came out on top with 10 votes against Sheila’s five .
Munya’s largest victory still came during week nine, when he raked in 13 votes against Jen’s one. Not even Jen’s homeland of Mozambique voted for her that week. Her solitary vote came from Nigeria.
Mwisho’s home country has voted Munya consistently and so has Lerato’s South Africa. The two countries have only done so when their candidates were absent from the nomination list. Kenya, Sheila’s home country, has voted Munya on those occasions when he was not facing Sheila or Uti (Nigeria). Nigeria has voted for Munya at least once, when he was up against Tatiana, during week four.
During the eviction show, head of house, Mwisho, a moment he seems to revel in, bragged: “Ok ladies and gentlemen. This one is a privilege and an honour to be here — you’re the most hopeful bunch of sore losers I’ve ever been with. I’m direct, ya, so — I came here for adventure, excitement and the treasure. I wanna give my reason — I’m here, I want to win this game, so obviously I had to switch myself — I’m not ready to go yet, and Tatiana, I switched myself with you,” the Tanzanian told them.
However, one of the interesting parts of the show is the “dagger” time. One housemate must be a jukebox. Every day all remaining housemates may request the jukebox to sing or dance. Anyone can request their favourite song after dinner.” After a brief pause, a big grin spread across Kaone’s face.
“This dagger is going to Lerato Mzansi!” Kaone shouted.
Tatiana’s “punishment” required that one housemate must change clothes three times a day and must entertain other housemates by dancing seductively and stripping every evening after dinner for 10 minutes. Sheila was put at the receiving end.
Tatiana left the show richer with US$3 000 she had won for discovering other housemates’ secrets and a camera and trip valued at R50 000 from SA Tourism, won for her victory in the Box task.
But as Kaone and Tatiana left the house, Big Brother had some news for the remaining housemates. Eleven weeks ago, US$20 000 was removed from the US$200 000 prize money for bad behaviour — but the housemates have since redeemed themselves, inspiring the continent with their discussions about malaria, gender, ethnicity and poverty. With that in mind, Big Brother decided that it is appropriate to restore the prize to the full value of US$200 000.
Now it’s up to Zimbabwe particularly to keep Munya in line to win the US$200 000 prize. Voting opened immediately after last Sunday’s eviction show and will close at 6am this Sunday. Viewers can vote for Munya in three different ways: Either via the website www.mnetafrica.com/bigbrother; or the WAPsite on your mobile phone; by sending an SMS  with the words “Vote Munya” on Econet or NetOne to 15626; or use MXit.
To vote on the website, cast your vote by clicking on Munya’s picture. (You can vote once per hour per registered e-mail address.) SMSes cost US$0,50. Free minutes do not apply. You can vote 100 times by SMS per mobile number during each voting period.
And remember, your vote could make a difference for the country!

(COLUMN)