{"id":788,"date":"2022-06-17T13:58:47","date_gmt":"2022-06-17T13:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/?p=788"},"modified":"2022-06-17T13:58:49","modified_gmt":"2022-06-17T13:58:49","slug":"oskido-returns-to-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/?p=788","title":{"rendered":"Oskido returns to school"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>09 February 2022<br><br>Charlene Thabisile Mguni<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>RENOWNED South African artist Oskido on Monday shared with his fans on twitter that he was returning to school for a short term course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oscar Sibonginkosi &#8220;Oskido&#8221; Mdlongwa is a legendary music producer born in Brits South Africa, but spent most of his childhood in Bulawayo&#8217;s Luveve suburb Zimbabwe, where his father, the late Esaph Mdlongwa used to reside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oskido is a recording artist, producer, who owns recording label, Kalawa Jazmee Records, and has also ventured into the restaurant business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oskido has been in the music industry for over 26 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In his early life, Oskido attended high school at Gifford High School in the City of Kings up until he moved to Brits in 1988 at the age of 21.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This led to him falling in love with the Kwaito music genre which was the &#8220;hit of the moment&#8221; music, and in 1991, he moved to Johannesburg to pursue his music career.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oskido is widely famous for working with artists such as Mafikizolo, Davido, Proffessor, May D, Uhuru, Busiswa, Candy Tsa Mandebele, who are amongst Africa&#8217;s finest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Monday he broke his silence on Twitter after announcing that he was returning to school for a short term Project Management course at the University of Pretoria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/chat.whatsapp.com\/HLTr91OAOOZ3jHdEI7418Z\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>He the course runs for five months and will be to equip his mind academically.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cToday I embark on a new challenge by going back to school. I have enrolled at the University of Pretoria for a 5-month Project Management Programme. That&#8217;s 8 am to 5 pm, 1 week per month. Believers let\u2019s keep growing and empowering ourselves,\u201d he tweeted a caption to a picture of himself in class.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>University of Pretoria is one of the prestigious universities in South Africa as well as one of the most expensive in that country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A research done, Oskido is set to pay over R46 000 for the course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Motivation for going back to school came from challenging himself to do better for himself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In an interview with Drum Magazine (South Africa), he said that he had a challenge with his daughter of not eating meat for 21 days, and after successfully completing the challenge, he felt energised to push himself further.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Congratulatory massages came pouring from other fellow celebrities such as Dj Black, who praised him for his new journey he has embarked on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In his other business, he currently owns one of the famous restaurants Daruma, in Sandton, and continues to work with artists signed under his record label.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ZIM GBC NEWS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>09 February 2022 Charlene Thabisile Mguni RENOWNED South African artist Oskido on Monday shared with his fans on twitter that he was returning to school for a short term course.&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=788"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":789,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788\/revisions\/789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}