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Oscar Mdlongwa has been given many affectionate nicknames over the years, including Oscar "Warona" (which means "ours"), "The Big O" and "Godzilla". His career is a fairytale one: he started out selling boerewors rolls from a stall outside Club Razzmatazz in Hillbrow. It was the early nineties, and late at night he would sneak in to the club to jam to fresh house tracks. He became fascinated with deejaying and occasionally he took over while the DJ took a break. One night, Razzmatazz's resident didn't pitch and he was asked to stand in. He hasn't looked back. Oscar was soon running the legendary Arena in Highoint, Hillbrow, with the late Ian Segola and doing his first production work on bassy cassettes aimed at taxis and passe
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