The Spring Day Music Explosion started with a long list of some of the country’s top musicians.
The festival welcoming spring turned into a disaster when a fire broke out and a number of cars were destroyed.
Ten cars where confirmed by the emergency services to have burnt down at the Bundu Inn Music Explosion in Pretoria this weekend.
Tshwane emergency services spokesman Johan Pieterse could not say what caused the blaze.
“Since there are no witnesses we are unable to fully confirm.”
Twitter has been in a frenzy about the blaze.
Some tweets stated that DJ Tira played the song Umlilo (Fire) by Big Nuz which got the izikhothane (show-offs) to burn their cars.
While many South Africans go to bed on empty stomachs, members of a growing youth culture, izikhothane, are often seen tearing and throwing away R100 notes.
The group, which usually destroys expensive clothes to seal their standing in a trend, recently splashed the money on the streets of Braamfontein, Johannesburg.
There was pandemonium as people ran after the cars trying to catch the flying torn notes.
Des Motloutsi, one of the people who managed to catch a few pieces which he managed to put together with tape, said izikhothane sported expensive clothes and jewellery.
“I could not believe what was happening. Notes were flying all over and people were pushing each other while catching the money. Izikhothane were also spilling expensive liquor,” he said.
Some had already pieced together R500, while other pieces did not match.
“This morning, we took the money to the Reserve Bank but they told us that the serial numbers did not correspond. Some of the pieces that we picked up don’t match.”