‘Love Island SA’s Thimna and Libho take the crown
FAVOURITES Thimna and Libho were crowned winners of Love Island SA on Sunday night.
Viewers have suffered through bad editing, lack of diversity and “Friend Island”, watching the show growing from strength to strength, to make it to the finale.
Favourites were dumped and some relationships were turned upside down along the way but in Sunday night’s finale of M-Net’s popular reality dating series, Thimna Shooto and Libhongo-Lethu “Libho” Geza – better known as “Limna” – became the winners of the very first season of the show.
The Eastern Cape based couple garnered 53% in vote share from a total of over 1.6 million votes cast in the finale round and took home the whopping R1 million cash prize, which the couple opted to split.
In second place were Millie Terblanche and Asad Boomgaard with over 30% in vote share, followed by Mischka Najar and Xavier Haupt with over 12% and
Ross Marshall and Tania Kera in fourth place with just over 2%.
Shortly after winning, Libho said: “I’d already won when I picked her, this is the icing on the cake … my biggest prize is being able to call Thimna my girlfriend … ”
Thimna said: “I’m so grateful to all who voted for Libho and I.”
Host Leandie du Randt asked Libho and Thimna to select an envelope – which would reveal who gets the R1 million – and ultimately, if they would choose money or love. Libho ended up with the prize money and opted to share it with Thimna, “the love of my life”.
Viewers can still watch the show on DStv Catch-Up until May 10.