In this week's edition of Story Behind My Nickname top football administrator, Tshifiwa Thidiela explains how he ended up with his popular nickname "Chief".
The Black Leopards' general manager who happens to be the club owner David Thidiela's son says at first his father did not approve of the name.
"I think the name that my grandmother or my parents gave me, it's Tshifiwa, meaning Sipho in IsiZulu," Thidiela tells KickOff.
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"But because I'm someone who grew up in Soweto in Gauteng, and you know in Gauteng there's different kind of people that speaks different languages.
"So people who are not from Venda struggle to pronounce Tshifiwa.
"Others say Tshipiwa, Tshiphiwe...it became worse when I attended a multi-racial school.
"People started creating other nicknames like 'Big T', up until this girl Thenjiwe who attended the same school started calling me 'Chief'.
"I think from there I became 'Chief' (Tshif), we were doing Standard 9 back then.
"In the beginning, my father didn't take kindly to that, he would say 'My son's name is Tshifiwa, not Chief'.
"But today he is the one who prefers calling me Chief more than any other person, hence even today I'm known as Chief.
"But sometimes it does create confusion for me, especially if I'm with the comrades because they are also calling each other 'Chief'."
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