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<\/p>\nM-Net has kept its promise to release the voting results that turned\u00a024-year-old Craig Lucas from Elsies River into\u00a0the winner of\u00a0The Voice South Africa\u00a0Season 2.<\/p>\n
During the final Season 2 voting period (from the end of the show on Sunday 2 July until Wednesday 5 July at 22:00),\u00a0The Voice SA\u00a0fans supported their favourite talent in full force with more than 1.67 million votes being cast \u2013 a new weekly record for the show. Craig came out tops with 20.18% of these votes ahead of runner-up Josh Ansley\u2019s 16.89%.\u00a0Nabbing the third and fourth\u00a0position was a neck-on-neck race for Samantha Leonard and Caroline Grace Brussow.\u00a0In the end, Samantha secured 15.47% of the votes while 15.09% went to Caroline. The two ladies were chased by Fatman (Johan Brummer), who garnered 14.15% of the votes and followed by PJ Pretorius and Luke Lovemore who respectively bagged 10.70% and 7.52% of the votes.<\/p>\n
The vote count and ranking of contestants for each vote period were independently computed by Deloitte & Touche and confirmed against the vote results determined by M-Net. (See attached graph of the final voting results).<\/p>\n
M-Net can also confirm that Craig was not linked to any of the paid-for marketing during the season that prompted M-Net to investigate whether there were any abnormalities in the voting.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Voice SA\u00a0has\u00a0proven to be\u00a0a\u00a0phenomenal platform\u00a0from which\u00a0to launch the careers of exceptional vocalists and it\u2019s exciting to know that our audience fell in love with Craig\u2019s unique tone and incredible passion for music. There\u2019s a great future ahead of him in the South African music industry,\u201d says M-Net South\u00a0Africa\u00a0GM, Nkateko Mbaso.
\n\u201cWe also believe that the intensive training and mentoring\u00a0that\u00a0all the finalists received during the course of the competition,\u00a0from the very best musos in the country,\u00a0will stand them in good stead. We wish them all the best with their music careers and will continue to support them,\u00a0wherever\u00a0possible.\u201d
\nGood news for fans of Craig is that he will be dropping his first single very soon. He will be going into the Universal Music SA studios to start crafting the song as early as\u00a0Monday\u00a017 July. He will also be singing the national anthem at the final of the SuperSport Rugby Challenge, which happens to take place in his\u00a0hometown this\u00a0Sunday\u00a016 July.<\/p>\n
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Weekly voting results for\u00a0The Voice SA\u00a0live shows:<\/p>\n
Week 1 (21-23 May):<\/strong> Team Karen Week 2 (28-30 May):<\/strong> Team Bobby Week 3 (4-6 June):<\/strong> Week 4 (11-13 June):<\/strong> Week 5 (18-20 June):<\/strong> Week 6 (25-27 June)\u00a0<\/strong> Week 7 (final)<\/strong> M-Net has kept its promise to release the voting results that turned\u00a024-year-old Craig Lucas from Elsies River into\u00a0the winner of\u00a0The Voice South Africa\u00a0Season 2. During the final Season 2 voting period (from the end of the show on Sunday 2 July until Wednesday 5 July at 22:00),\u00a0The Voice SA\u00a0fans supported their favourite talent in full… Continue reading The Voice SA Voting Results Revealed<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[21,118],"class_list":["post-4622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-television","tag-mnet","tag-the-voice-sa","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThis season, M-Net expanded the show with\u00a0more\u00a0\u2013\u00a0bigger\u00a0and better – live shows, this time from the Mosaiek Teatro in Fairland, Johannesburg. Within the new structure of the show, coaches Kahn and Karen could save one person from their teams of four during the first live show. This singer was guaranteed a spot in the Top\u00a08\u00a0alongside the talent who received the most votes from the public\u00a0out of the remaining three singers in each team. It played out as follows:
\nTeam Kahn
\nFatman\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Saved by Kahn
\nCraig Lucas \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 61.77%
\nZee Gqamana \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 20.75%
\nFreddy Llalendle\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 17.48%<\/p>\n
\nSamantha Leonard\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Saved by Karen
\nPJ Pretorius\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 73.95%
\nAmanda Faku\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 17.35%
\nLindo Sithole\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 8.70%<\/p>\n
\nIt was now time for Lira and Bobby to save one talent, and for the public\u2019s voting results to save another talent from their teams. The results looked like this:
\nTeam Lira
\nTender Mavundla\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Saved by Lira
\nLuke Lovemore\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 57.24%
\nMarissa Petzer\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 21.87%
\nBubbles Mnomiya\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 20.89%<\/p>\n
\nJosh Ansley\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Saved by Bobby
\nCaroline-Grace Brussow\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a044.69%
\nMarco Basson\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a035.94%
\nJohn James Janse van Rensburg\u00a0\u00a019.37%<\/p>\n
\nThe outcome of the competition was now fully in the hands of the voting public. In the first week of voting Josh led the pack with his performance of Kings of Leon\u2019s \u201cSex on Fire\u201d and Caroline came second after her rendition of \u201cUnconditionally\u201d by Katy Perry.
\nJosh Ansley\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 19.43%
\nCaroline-Grace Brussow\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 18.34%
\nCraig Lucas\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 17.40%
\nFatman\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 14.34%
\nPJ Pretorius\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 10.47%
\nLuke Lovemore\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 8.13%
\nSamantha Leonard\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 7.53%
\nTender Mavundla\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 4.36%<\/p>\n
\nJosh was still in position number one after his performance of \u201cWhen a Man Loves a Woman\u201d by Michael Bolton, but Craig moved in extremely close behind him with his cover of Harry Styles\u2019 \u201cSign of the Times\u201d.
\nJosh Ansley\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 20.25%
\nCraig Lucas\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 19.77%
\nSamantha Leonard\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 15.17%
\nFatman\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 12.31%
\nCaroline\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 12.01%
\nPJ Pretorius\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 11.79%
\nLuke Lovemore\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a08.70%<\/p>\n
\nCraig was elevated to the top in this week with his stand-out performance of Prince\u2019s \u201cPurple Rain.\u201d
\nCraig Lucas\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 23.52%
\nJosh Ansley\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 19.00%
\nCaroline-Grace\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 16.02%
\nFatman\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 14.34%
\nSamantha\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 13.96%
\nPJ Pretorius\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a013.16%<\/p>\n
\nFor the sake of fairness and transparency, after M-Net was made aware of paid-for marketing on the social media accounts of some talent,\u00a0M-Net nullified the votes\u00a0for this week. As M-Net (and DeLoitte & Touche) also couldn\u2019t determine with certainty whether misconduct took place\u00a0regarding\u00a0paid-for marketing in the previous two weeks, both PJ and Luke were given the option to return to the show.\u00a0Both singers opted to return for the final round of the competition.<\/p>\n
\nThe winner was determined by the voting public.\u00a0See above \u00a0finale voting results graph.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"