To those with long enough memories, he is the first African footballer to score a Premier League goal. To fans of Coventry City and Birmingham City, he will forever be known by the nickname Nuddy.
He has been given the sobriquet the Bulawayo Bullet - a tribute to both Zimbabwe's second city, where he was born, and his searing pace - while his team-mates in the Zimbabwe national side used to call him Zonga.
But to Florence Dlamini, Peter Ndlovu is nothing more than a 'deadbeat man' who refuses to do the right thing by his own flesh and blood.