Edited by Azizi Powell
This pancocojams post provides some information about South African music producer Osikido and showcases two YouTube videos of Osikido's hit Kwaito tracks "Tsa Mandebele" & "Tsa Mandebele Kids". Some information about those song's singer, Candy Tsa Mandebele, is also included in this post.
Selected comments from the discussion threads for these videos are also included in this post.
The content of this post is presented for cultural, entertainment and aesthetic purposes.
All copyrights remain with their owners.
Thanks to Osikido for his production of these tracks. Thanks for Candy for singing these songs. Thanks to all others who were involved with these songs and these videos. Thanks also to the publisher of these videos.
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INFORMATION ABOUT OSIKIDO
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oskido
"Oscar Sibonginkosi Mdlongwa (born November 23, 1967) is a South African recording artist, DJ, record producer and businessman. Having been in the music industry for over 30 years, Oskido has reached a prominent status in the South African music industry, more importantly in popular youth culture. He is undoubtedly one of the pioneering artists that popularised the kwaito genre of music outside the townships of South Africa, and he’s been central to the rise of Afro-house and newer genres like amapiano.[citation needed] Oskido is the co-founder of Kalawa Jazmee Records (formerly Kalawa Records), a record label that is home to musical acts like Mafikizolo, Bongo Maffin and many other foremost groups.
Early life
Born to a Zimbabwean father, Esaph Mdlongwa, who was a politician and a South African mother, Emily Sophia Molifi, in Oukasie township, Brits, North West, South Africa, Oskido spent most of his early life in Luveve Township, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, where he went on to finish his basic education after graduating from Gifford High School, Bulawayo. He returned to Brits at the age of 21 in 1988 to run a family owned super market in Lethlabile Brits before he left for Johannesburg to pursue a career in music.
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Oskido's career kicked off after he volunteered to perform at Razzmatazz when the scheduled DJ failed to show up. The late Ian Sigola played a major role in guiding him in the club scene by lending him his vinyls. After reworking songs and formulating his own sound in the studio, he went on to release the cassette compilations ‘Mixmaster’ and ‘Big Jam’, thus boosting his popularity outside of Johannesburg, before he was introduced to Bruce "Dope" Sebitlo, a South African music artist who went on partner Oskido in the Brothers of Peace group.
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Kalawa Jazmee
Kalawa Jazmee Records (sometimes "KJ Records") was formed as Kalawa in 1992 by Christos Katsaitis (who departed in 1995), Don Laka and DJ Oskido and took its name from the first two letters of their respective surnames (Oskido often used "Warona" at the time)... The record label has been at the forefront of youth culture.
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Kwaito revolution
Kwaito is a music genre that was originally created in South Africa during the 1990s. It has been described as the music that defines the generation who came of age after apartheid. Oskido was amongst the first artists to produce kwaito tracks by adding vocals to the slow tempo house beats, and it went on to become popular in South Africa.[…. Oskido and his producing partners faced an avalanche of criticism from all quarters of the music industry for creating Kwaito. His contribution to the development of dance music in South Africa earned him a Special Recognition Award at the 2012 Channel O Music Video Awards.[citation needed]He was also part of the Kalawa Jazmee crew honoured at the SA Dance Music Awards in the same year.
House Music
Oskido is also known for his top selling ‘Church Grooves’ compilation series, which kicked off in 2001 and changed the face of South African house compilations, making them a staple in the industry for the next twenty years.“...
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INFORMATION ABOUT CANDY TSA MANDEBELE
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candy_Tsa_Mandebele
"Candy Tsa Mandebele Mokwena (born June 19, 1970) is a South African singer, songwriter, actress. Mandebele began singing in her mother's community traditional group, Sekgapa, at the age of 14. Mandebele began her career in 1993 as a songwriter, prior to joining group Shaka Bundu Girls in 1995.
Mandebele is also well known for singing in Khelobedu language, which is a dialect of Northern Sotho language. In 2016, Mandebele released her solo debut album Siki (Five Cents) through Sony Music, The album was a critical success and generated the single " Baile".
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In September 2010, her debut solo album, “Siki (Five Cents)”, was released, it was released to positive reviews from music critics, and spawned the hit " Baile".[6] The single earned Mandebele one nominations at the 2000 South African Music Awards.[8] Throughout the years, Mandebele performed guest verses on several song, including "Nkatanga" by Selaelo Selota and Malatji, "Boloba Thaba" with Revolution, DJ Lucky, Lacosta's "Diteki" and "Khoma jive", Uhuru's "Nkirikiri", Dr Malinga's "Moshito" and Black Motion's "Maghoro".[6]
After a four-year hiatus, On October 13, 2013, Mandebele released "Tsa Mandebele" song featuring Oskido and an accompanying music video on YouTube. The song became a 2013 hit and signature song for Tsa Mandebele."...
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SHOWCASE VIDEOS
Video #1: Oskido ft Candy & Mabhiza "Tsa Mandebele
Kalawa Jazmee TV, Nov 23, 2012
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Statistics as of June 7, 2020 as of 9:35 AM EDT
Total # of views- 696,055
Total # of likes-2.6K
Total # of dislikes-106
Total # of comments-273
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Video #2: Oskido's Candy "Tsa Mandebele kids"
Kalawa Jazmee TV, May 2, 2013
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Statistics as of June 7, 2020 as of 9:30 AM EDT
Total # of views- 2,551,002
Total # of likes-14K
Total # of dislikes-743
Total # of comments -1,229
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Here are the lyrics for this song (with an English translation) and a few comments from this video's discussion thread (with numbers added for referencing purposes only)
1. David Molebalo, 2013
"OHHHH! Oskido what r doing man! This song is soooo HOT,aspecialy with the young ones"
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2. Matthew De Jager, 2013
"Well done all the kids from Building Blocks Vorna Valley in Midrand, South Africa. You guys were amazing, I am so proud of all of you."
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3. philasande kona, 2013
"WOW I LV DIS VIDEO CN SOMEBODY TELL ME WHAT IZ THE NAME OF DE DANCE THEY AR DOING"
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4. BONGANI BUTHELEZI, 2013
"It is some dance we do here in Pretoria....the name I will ask around for you"
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5. East London [Team-Gqom], 2018
"The Guaraguara dance has been around for a while mara. Dj Bongz just took it to a private school. Watch @2:32"
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6. Washington Junior, 2014
"The first time I listened to Osikido's mix was in 2001 since then am hooked to the guy awesome music always.. Osikido.."
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7. sunday pete, 2014
"awesome, this song reminds me of the children play-songs we used to dance to...good stuff!"
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8. Motanyane Mathumetse, 2014
"Preschool Anthem
You got to love what Oskido and candy did on this video"
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9. Mavanga Fernando Celestino Rauvanga, 2014
"I liked this song in the way that children interpret the song. Congratulations South African children and a hug for skido, congratulations Africa congratulated the African style House.
Rauvanga starting from Luanda – Angola"
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10. stan Lukuwi, 2015
"Oskido your the great this song remind me when I was kid we use to play at school aaaaaaahh nice work
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11. Kelvin mugweru, 2015
"This song is heating in KENYA like crazy,, tho I don't get the words bat i really enjoy the beats,,,,"
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12. londz1987, 2015
"Most of us in South Afric don't either..lol"
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13. Okuhle Osh, 2015
"trust me most south africans dont understand the words but it was a hit."
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14. Okuhle Osh, 2015
"jeah it is one of the South African languages but only a little percent of the people know it"
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15. Flakka Goat,2015
"@benard wandera it's in sotho, one of south africa's languages."
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16. tebatso selowa, 2015
"@benard wandera its Khelobedu closely related to Kalanga language originally from Zimbabwe"
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17. Flakka Goat, 2015
"@tebatso selowa you're mistaking the name of the song with the name of the language used in the song, the song is sung in sesotho."
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18. tebatso selowa, 2015
"I'm saying these because I am molobedu great grandchild of the kalangas... I know what I'm saying believe me"
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19. Flakka Goat, 2015
"@tebatso selowa dude i'm south african & I speak sesotho the only reason you're mentioning zim is bcos of the title of the track 'mandebele' btw ndebele people are found in both south africa & Zimbabwe"
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20. tebatso selowa, 2015
"nah nah...tell me if you have the words in ur sotho "le zwe kwelekwete kwelekwete"...quoting from the song. and tell me which sotho is it southern or northern"
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21. benard wandera, 2015
"Am even more confused guys. But does anyone understand the whole song?"
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22. tebatso selowa, 2015
"Yep is in my home language... We used to sing it in the streets while playing in our childhood. even the artist is from my hood Bolobedu in Limpopo"
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23. Flakka Goat, 2015
"@tebatso selowa This is a Northern Sotho nursery rhyme using the Khelobedu(Balobedu tribe "northern sotho" found in limpopo south africa) dialect:
Basimana ba Ramodumela (Boys of Ramudumela)
Ba re ba mpona (When they see me)
Ba hlaba lekgwara (They bent on one knee-I'm not sure ,the translation is direct)
Kgwara le ntseke (bended like Ntseke)
Ntseke mphe metsi ke nwe ka lefiso (Ntseke give me water,so I can drink with a Calabash)
Lefiso la barwa (Calabash of the sons)
Barwa ba ile fe?(where have all the sons gone?)
Baile go tsoma,phalana ela (They went to hunt bucks)
Olla e reng? (How does the buck cry?)
E re ke nonne,ke nonne,hlogo mala le mogodu,ke sekgwelekgwete (It cries and says,I am fat,my head,stomach and gut,I am a big fatty.
Last Part:
Ka totoma,ka totoma kaya ka tsena ,(I stalked and stalked until I got in)
Ka ya ka tsena mošedi ka re legwere:,(I got in to the other side and said to the Boomslang:
Ka re legwere,legwere o lla kang?(I said,Boomslang,Boomslang what is your cry?)
Ke lla ka eng?Sekgokgothi malla tšhipi,(What am I crying about?Sekgokgothi the bell ringer)
Basimana ba dikgomo ra ya ra diša (Us herd boys,went to herd the cattle)
Ra ya ra diša dikgomo tša Matebele (We went to herd the cattle of the Ndebeles)
Ka ya ka topa šeleng ya ka dikwankwaneng (I then picked up 10 cents)
Ka eketša ka sokana dikwankwaneng (I then added 5 cents)
Kunkure,agee tša Matebele .(That is all about the Ndebeles)
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24. tebatso selowa, 2015
"Khelobedu is a nondialect northern Sotho or pedi ...do ur proper research on khelobedu ...I'm impressed with the lyrics"
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25. Flakka Goat, 2015
"@tebatso selowa Ok did some research now it makes sense as to why I could understand, Khelobedu is grammatically similar to Sotho, Tswana, Kalanga, Tshivenda languages. BTW my mum is mopedi.
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26. tebatso selowa, 2015
"Yep... That's khelobedu originally from Zimbabwe many people mistaken us for pedi or Sotho people but we're different and again we're forced to do pedi in our schools as our mother tongue because is not yet recognized in SA so even my khelobedu its getting weaker and weaker because of the other languages ...the real one you were not gonna hear anything I bet you"
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27. Kgoshigadi Lebo, 2014
"The language is not that different from Setswana,I'm not Tswana but I wrote Tswana exams in school and there is no difference between the two languages,only pronunciation of some words.
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28. Peter Asilia, 2014
"I love the video and the beautiful kids who did a great job with the singing and dancing."
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29. lloyd mandiwa, 2015
"no wonder you are called the rainbow nation if everyone was like this there would be no war in the world i guess this is what madida fought for amazing theme sound and dance i now have to dance to it everytime with my daughter even if we dont understand it big up kalawa jazmee the best production house in africa!!!!!!!!!"
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30. Bi Tube, 2015
"It was a hit in Malawi too, it used to be played in almost every club and party, and finally i have found it ,after a long time looking for it, because i didn't know the name and now i play it in clubs and parties here in Sweden and people love it....."
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31. Brian Maseko, 2015
"This is powerful,legendary song!Big up Oskido....
i enjoy the song arrangement more."
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32. Jim Black, 2016
"This song it's a mega hit in Haiti"
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33. Thabiso Raphaphula, 2016
"I like this song, more especially that it is sang in one of Sepedi dialect called 'Khelobedu'...I also like the way in which the language is being promoted..thanks to Candy"
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34. Vincent Mmakosi, 2016
"I see more Kenyan comments than South Africans, where our love at SA?"
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35. wanja kimathi
"To be honest the song is more of a hit here in Kenya as compared to SA. It is also played a lot at parties or events here in Kenya #bantu"
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36. Tarrus Bigman, 2019
"Who's watching this today 🤣🤣🤣💯💯💯 this is a Kenyan party starter song😘😘😘💕💕💕🤞🏿🤞🏿🤞🏿"
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37. buddabulletproof, 2020
"Did you know that this song (yes, this exact version, with the kids) is a smash hit club song in Kenya? How do you feel about that?"
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38. JOMO KELVIN, 2019
"In Kenya, this song is still a hit in clubs. Our deejays can't let it go."
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39. ISAAC JUMA, 2017
"Reminds me of my good old times as a kindergarten kid ...I love those kids..And the beat is just amazing..God bless you all"
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40. Fisayo Agboola, 2017
"I don't understand the lyrics but the rhythm and the beat is sick 👌"
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41. vivian uche oyitabu-nwafor, 2019
"This song was a hit in Nigeria few years ago. Oskido is great producer of house music."
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42. Ken Ken, 2019
"It’s top 20 in Nigeria"
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43. barry buckham, 2019
"Its a proudly south african song..children playing nd its a nursery rhyme song..hats of to oskido..1 of our very best nd humble djs dat started out hussling nd struggling...."
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44. Mc chungong, 2019
"Still banging in clubs in Cameroon in 2019"
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45. C Cecillia, 2019
"I thought it was a Thailand 🇹🇭 song the way they jump up in the club to sing it and dancing here in Malaysia 🇲🇾 as if is their song😃 so they been biting their mouths 👄 deceiving me making me feel jealous all this while...?!🤔😩😣🤣 kudos to the maker of this song , I love the beating most 👍💃🙋🏻♀"
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46. SaЯah, 2019
"All the clubs in Africa are playing this song. Such creativity !!!!
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47. Mbianyor Arrey, 2019
"My allegiance to the King of Kwaito"
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48. Director Philosopher, 2019
"Who is here with me this 2019, this was lit there before i dint have idea about video shooting and editing now i can tell the feeling after finishing my school two years ago.. this was lit.. a like the Video Director, the editor was on point too, oh goodness look the teachers i like this look at that kid at 1:10 min whaaat..ok check that of 2:42 mayooooo , we need one more any reports"
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49. momichiwa, March 2020
"In the Coronavirus quarantine, dancing this :D"
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50. KEITAN ROADTRIPS TV, April 2020
"Can't wait for covid 19 to end so we can dance with friends again"
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