The grand finale of Love Island South Africa has seen fan favourites Thimna and Libho are also known as "Limna" become the winners of the first season of the show.

The couple received the most viewer votes with over 53% out of the 1.6 million votes cast during the finale. As part of the win, Limna will take home a staggering 1 million Rands (49,800 pounds); which the couple opted to split.

Remarks from the couple

Speaking after the win was announced; the 23 year old student-athlete and freelance model, Libho said that the win was completely overwhelming.[

Libho.[/caption]"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", he added.He also revealed that the two will be moving in together very soon; "I will be working towards moving in with Thimna as soon as possible, as we feel not living together would be a regression from the progress we made in the villa".

Meanwhile, Thimna expressed her appreciation to all the people who supported them in their Love Island SA journey; "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". In second place was Millie Terblanche and Asad Boomgaard with over 30% in vote share, followed by Mischka Najar and Xavier Haupt with over 12% and finally Ross Marshall and Tania Kera in fourth place with just over 2% in vote share.The vote count and ranking of contestants was independently re-calculated by Deloitte & Touche based on the votes received and the voting rules.

The re-calculated results were confirmed against the voting results determined by and provided by M-Net (the TV channel broadcasting the show).