Will there be a season 4 of Kings of Jo'burg? Half the trackers say it's over, Netflix hasn't
Kings of Jo'burg has always taken its time between seasons. This time the silence has lasted long enough that some sites have already written the show off.
Netflix released Kings of Jo'burg season 3 on June 13, 2025. Seventeen months later, the streamer has neither renewed the South African crime drama nor cancelled it, and depending on where you check, you'll get three different answers.
Spoilers for the season 3 finale below.
What the trackers say
- Soon on Netflix: Lists season 4 as "ended" and says flatly that there won't be one.
- The Futon Critic: Marks the show as on hiatus, with a note that it "has yet to be renewed" for a fourth season.
- TVEndDates: Still shows a "renewed" label, apparently carried over from season 3.
None of them cite anything from Netflix, because there's nothing to cite. Netflix South Africa hasn't announced a fourth season, and Ferguson Films hasn't either.
The worrying sign
On September 9, Netflix marked 10 years in South Africa with a new local slate, per Media Play News. It included a second season of Blood Legacy, Seriously Single Too, Another Disaster Holiday, second seasons of Tuiskoms and Marked, and Meet the Khumalos 2.
Kings of Jo'burg was there only as part of the back catalog, in the list of South African titles Netflix had already made. For a show that has been one of the streamer's flagship local dramas since 2020, that's a conspicuous absence, especially as industry coverage has reported Netflix scaling back on African productions.
Netflix threw a 10th-birthday party for South Africa and mentioned the Masires only as former guests.
The reassuring sign
The show has never been quick. Look at the gaps:
- Season 1: December 4, 2020.
- Season 2: January 27, 2023, more than two years later.
- Season 3: June 13, 2025, almost two and a half years after that.
Netflix didn't announce season 3 until early 2025, with a teaser, roughly four months before it dropped. By the show's own clock, a fourth season wouldn't be expected until late 2027, and the announcement might not come until a few months before.
The schedule also has a reason behind it. Creator Shona Ferguson, who played Simon "Vader" Masire, died in July 2021. His widow, Connie Ferguson, who plays Veronica Masire, has carried the show as executive producer ever since.
"There's a legacy to uphold."
— Connie Ferguson, to the Sunday Independent
In the same interview, she said season 2 was hard and that losing Shona meant "rewriting everything."
What season 4 would pick up
Season 3 doesn't close the story. The finale's last attack leaves Veronica and Isador (Malik Yoba) dead and their newborn daughter alive, handed to Keneilwe (Thembi Seete), the last surviving Masire sibling. The baby's eyes glow ocean blue, the mermaid's mark, which means the family curse has a new host.
The show also never confirms who ordered the hit. Aliko Bajo, the Nigerian crime lord whose deal fell apart in the finale, is the obvious suspect, but the episode doesn't show it.
Our read
Nobody who actually makes the show has called it over. The trackers saying it's done are reading the calendar, and on this show's calendar 17 months of silence is normal.
The Netflix slate is harder to wave away. If season 4 is coming, the earliest realistic date is late 2027, and the first real sign will be a Netflix South Africa teaser, not a tracker update.
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