Big Brother Africa 4: The Industrial Revolution

BY now, we all know that Angola’s Emma and Nigerian Geraldine are up for possible eviction this week.

Originally, Emma and Itai were nominated by housemates but Itai, as Head of House (obviously) saved himself and put Geraldine in the mix for the first time. Itai and Geradine haven’t been getting along very well lately, ever since they had quite a heated arguement, which ended with Geraldine calling him a serpent. Geraldine herself, told Biggie during one of her diary room sessions, that she sensed Itai had put her up. So, your choices this week are between pretty but loud-mouthed Emma and pretty but semi-silent Geraldine. It may be better for Eddie if Emma is evicted, as she is part of Kevin’s alliance who, as we all know by now, seems to be determined to boot Eddie out, like in yesterday already. Kevin seems intent on trying to get Eddie and Mzamo put up at the same time so that one of them goes! All’s fair in love and war, but it also underlines why it’s important to keep the conspiracy factor in mind.Geraldine and Nkenna are in an alliance, Nkenna and Eddie are close so perhaps voting to keep Geraldine in the house would be the best thing to do, strategically.With fewer and fewer people in the house and alliances being tested to the max, this coming Monday’s nominations will perhaps be the most important of all, as it determines who stays for the finals and who just misses out. Fingers crossed for our Eddie! If he makes it to the final, he will be the first Namibian in the history of Big Brother Africa to have made it all the way to the end. Another scenario being talked about in BBA circles is that they may have five housemates in the final this year.If that’s the case, it will probably mean there’ll be three SADC housemates and two from Naija – if Geraldine goes on Sunday. Given the strong country tendency of many viewers, it is highly likely it will affect who wins!I’m sure the Nigerians would fall behind one of their housemates – likely Kevin if he’s still there. However, the SADC vote would be split some ….These are among the issues being hotly debated by BBA addicts! The choice is yours!!Let’s Go Scuba DivingHa, ha, ha! Itai is all dressed up with nowhere to go! As part of a Molotov Cocktail sent to him courtesy of the latest BBA evictee Leonel. As soon as IK had read out the molotov cocktail at Sunday’s eviction show, Leonel grinned widely and didn’t hesitate to send it Itai’s way. The way Itai can’t take a joke, I think this Molotov is just the perfect remedy for him given that he takes himself way too seriously. And what makes this whole thing so poetic is the fact that Itai is HoH this week. Can you just imagine having to take orders from a guy wearing a scuba mask, a snorkel and fins!Almost wish I could inflict the same kinda punishment on my very own Supplements Editor (sorry J!) – lol.Well, needless to say, Itai looks absolutely ridiculous. Made more so by the embarrassed and very serious look on his face most of the time. Really fun to watch!Raw Eggs and Clothes PegsThis week’s task is in the mad scientist vein – think wild grey hair, sloppy clothes and dodgy experiments. The Industrial Revolution task requires the housemates to act as lab rats, testing the world’s oldest and greatest mysteries like; does helium really affect your vocal chords? And, can you break glass by singing at a high pitch?Sounds interesting and slightly painful. Yesterday, housemates had to begin by bashing raw eggs into their heads. Eeeuw! The theory being tested was: can you make good luck?Housemates found seven trays of eggs in the garden – half were boiled and half were raw. Each housemate had to randomly select six eggs each and, one at a time – break them over their heads. Depending on how many eggs were boiled – which represents good luck, and how many were raw – which represents bad luck, the housemates would be able to test the theory. After that it was on to who has the higher pain threshold, men or women. Well duh! I would have thought that one was obvious. The experiment proved it though, we women have the ability to tolerate higher levels of pain than men. Hot WaxThe housemates went all Madonna in ‘Body of Evidence’ by dripping hot wax over their arms. Each housemate had to wax equal areas of their bodies – and then depending on the volume and amount of pain indicated in the scream – would determine who managed pain better. The girls won this one hands down, but as Emma pointed out, this could be because most women are used to being waxed as they do it quite regularly. This was followed by the clothes peg torture experiment. The housemates had to agree on a location of the body to peg and can you believe it – they chose nipples. Eish! Wouldn’t ears or fingers have been a better option? Or maybe the guys just wanted a chance to beat the girls on this one.Itai had to time, with a stopwatch – the exact amount of time that each housemate could stand to have a clothes peg attached to their nipples. Most of the guys managed four minutes but some of the ladies couldn’t stand the severe pain and were unable to last even a minute. Nkenna even stopped earlier because she said she was afraid of doing herself permanent damage.Mzamo, crazy girl that she is – put her peg on and continued reading a book. In the end Geraldine and Emma saved it for the girls, going up to 10 minutes under the clamp of the peg. Rather them than me. Eina!