Survival In South Africa - #216
Shaken and Disturbed
John Thrasher and Daryn Carp
4.6 • 549 Ratings
🗓️ 1 March 2026
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
A horrific hijacking in South Africa ends in stab wounds that should have left Alison Botha dead. Instead she survived. And what happened after she recovered shocked the country and the world.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to shaken and disturbed everybody. |
| 0:08.4 | Mr. Eyebrows, Mrs. Eyebrows over there is Mother God. |
| 0:12.2 | And I am here as Father God, also eyebrows raising. |
| 0:16.0 | If you can see us. |
| 0:18.1 | Pop quiz. |
| 0:19.2 | What famous, what famous celebrity gave me these eyebrows in an elevator and I thought maybe he was hitting on me. |
| 0:25.8 | Oh, yes. That was Hugh Jackman. Yes, that's correct. Yes, that's right. You win. You don't win anything. |
| 0:31.5 | So had little Marks Brothers thing going on. But welcome the shaken and disturbed. This is Darren and that is John on the other |
| 0:37.5 | end of the line. We are recording this on a Tuesday. So if you went to our NMR last week, we're |
| 0:45.3 | trying to update as much as we can about the Nancy Guthrie thing. But, you know, don't also want to |
| 0:50.3 | spoil the waters of which there are so many cooks in that kitchen, so many fish in that sea. |
| 0:55.6 | So we're just kind of like giving you the updates as we normally record unless something |
| 0:58.6 | kind of big happens. So this is just a regular case this week. Are you ready to go, John? Yeah, |
| 1:03.9 | let's get into this week's episode. So on September 22nd, 1967, Allison Botha was born in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, to parents who later |
| 1:13.9 | divorced when she was 10 years old. |
| 1:16.1 | Allison grew up as a high achiever, eventually earning the position of head girl at the |
| 1:20.9 | collegiate high school for girls in 1985 and developing a reputation for positivity, |
| 1:25.8 | discipline, and strong moral character. For some reason, whenever I think of these, like, schools for boys and schools for girls, I always think about that. I always think about that movie, Dead Poets Society. I don't think I've ever seen it. I know it's a classic, but I don't think I've ever seen it. Robin Williams. Oh, Captain, my Captain. Oh, that's what that's from? Okay. It's a very good movie. My point of reference whenever I hear like head girl or head boy is like Harry Potter because I know that they had like prefects and things at Hogwarts. So I didn't know that that was a thing actually until like later on in life. |
| 2:01.2 | Yeah. |
| 2:01.5 | Well, because I went to like public school. |
| 2:03.4 | Yeah, I did too. |
| 2:04.3 | So I was like head girl in like a different way. |
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