Dozi's name is Henk Opperman. He was given the nickname "Dozi" while studying at Technicon. In the evenings he would perform at restaurants and functions,and then get back home very late at night.As a result, he started sleeping in the afternoons. His fellow students started calling him Dozi as a result of the love for sleeping. The name stuck, and soon, everyone knew him as Dozi. Dozi was born on the 23rd of March in Hluhluwe in Kwazulu/Natal. As a young boy, he moved to the Standerton area with his parents, where he grew up on a farm..