Bringing Scorpion Kings Live to South Africa’s biggest stadium

The live show from DJ Maphorisa and Kabza De Small increased its audience from 50,000 to 74,000 between its 2025 and 2026 outings

News By Tochi Louis | 2 November 2026

Scorpion Kings Live

A year after DJ Maphorisa and Kabza De Small brought their show Scorpion Kings Live to a 50,000-strong Pretoria crowd in 2025, the act returned in late September for one of the largest amapiano events ever staged in front of a nearly a 50% bigger audience, this time in South Africa’s biggest stadium.

Now, after bring the show to 74,000 fans at FNB Stadium in Johannesburg, organisers tell IQ about the more complex set of operational and commercial considerations behind the sequel…

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