Football great, Benjani Mwaruwari has revealed that his name was not Benjani at birth but he got the name due to a mistake by a Home O...
Football great, Benjani Mwaruwari has revealed that his
name was not Benjani at birth but he got the name due to a mistake by a Home Office official 41 years ago.
His real name is Mpenjani, the Tumbuka equivalent of the
name Dingani in Ndebele or Tsvagai in Shona.
“My first name came as a result of a wrong entry when my
late father went to do my birth certificate. My name at birth was Mpenjani, but
due to my father’s foreign accent, the pronunciation sounded like Benjani. In
that regard, I grew up with an experience of being known by the wrong first
name.
“I even forgot to correct the anomaly 15 years ago, when I
named my first-born child Benjani Junior. I was later blessed with four girls
and I am done siring children meaning that I hope and pray the irregularity
will be maybe corrected through one of my grandchildren,” the former Warriors
captain told B Metro from UK.
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