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Mduduzi Mabaso plays the streetwise Suffocate
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The tough and surly owner of Soweto's famous Kilowatt Club (a disused power station), he's an ex-con done good. He doesn't bear fools gladly and holds his own in the boxing ring or in a knife fight with Tsotsis (thugs). He hasn't had much luck with women though.

Suffocate hosts an annual Christmas party for orphans in his hood and has informally adopted a former street kid who now attends a plush private boarding school. He'll lend money to mates in dire straits. But above all, he's a businessman: the club is preparing for the World Cup. Expect tripled booze prices, extra flat-flash screen TVs and plenty tourist tour groups with hoards of local opportunists on their trail.

Big Tip: be nice to his unofficial bouncers, Toolkit and Speshil.