Public voting has decided, and it was Tanzania's Latoya Lyakurwa, who received the most votes to leave Big Brother Africa 3 house, and was evicted during the live eviction show on Sunday.

Latoya - who was up for eviction with Botswana's Tawana Lebani - received a total of 11 votes to quit the house, while Tawana received two.The two countries, which voted for Tawana to leave the house are Tanzania and Ghana, and the rest of the participating countries voted for Latoya to leave the house, with her 11th vote coming from other non-participating countries.

The process that saw Latoya leaving the house started a fortnight ago with three housemates nominated up for eviction. These were Tawana, Latoya and Kenya's Sheila Kwanboka. In one of the twists promised in M-Net's reality show, the voting lines were opened for the public to vote for those they wanted out of the house and the two with the most votes were sent to 'rubbish dump' for a week, but at this point the housemates were under the impression that the two had been permanently evicted from the house.

The public voting results released two Sundays back landed Latoya, and Tawana in the "rubbish dump" for a whole week, during which the public started voting afresh for the one they wanted permanently out of the show between the two "rubbish dump" mates and it was Latoya.

The other housemates in the meantime, were told that each and everyone of them was up for eviction - and they actually believed it.The eviction show, which is broadcast every Sunday on DStv's channel 198, started as usual with performances and this time around the audience was treated to a performance by Namibian musician, The Dogg. The viewers were of course eager to know who will actually be the first to leave the house, whether history would repeat itself with Botswana's representative leaving first, as it was the case with Justice Motlhabani in BBA 2. When results were ready, Big Brother 3 live show presenter Kabelo "KB" Ngakane took his time to open the envelope as he sometimes does. But he finally announced that it was actually Latoya who will be leaving.

Latoya seemed shocked for a moment, as she had previously mentioned that it was her destiny to go back inside the house and shake things up, but she, however, recovered very quickly and stood up to leave. In front of the audience, Latoya seemed like her cheerful self, giving the audience a big smile and giggling throughout when answering KB's questions.She, however, broke down when she hugged her mother and shed a few tears. Back in the house, it was silent with housemates awaiting the announcement of the one who was to be evicted, but confusion was starting to set in as they could hear the audience from the live eviction show, shouting Latoya and Tawana's names.

The highlight of the evening, and much to the surprise of everyone, was no doubt Tawana's dramatic re-entry into the house. While some were very excited to see her back, quite a number of housemates looked like they wished the ground could open and swallow them, one such was Zambia's Takondwa Nkonjera, who is referred to as TK in the house.

TK, who had previously had a close relationship with Tawana sat on the couch for quite sometime as other housemates stood up to give Tawana a hug, and was not at all pleased to see Tawana walk back into the house. Another one who could not hide her displeasure at Tawana's return, was Ghana's Wilhelmina Abu-Andani who goes by the name Mimi in the house. Mimi was mum for a while, and seemed not to be present in the house, with viwers asking if she has been evicted.

Other housemates, including Nigeria's Uti Nwachukwu, and Zimbabwe's Munyaradzi Chidzonga (Munya), seemed genuinely happy at Tawana's return. The women, of course, were kind of giving Tawana a cold shoulder, save for Malawi's Hazel Warren, who, nonetheless, has a somewhat warm relationship with Tawana.