isiZulu is the language of the Zulu people with about 10 million speakers, the vast majority (over 95%) of whom live in South Africa. It is the native language in the KwaZulu Natal province where our Clyral offices are based. Since we are focussing our efforts on predominantly Zulu speaking people, we thought it would be very appropriate to adopt part of the language in our name.

In the end, Mobenzi came out on top. We combined the first half of the word ‘Mobile‘ (a little clichéd perhaps) with part of the Zulu word for ‘task or work’ which is ‘umsebenzi‘. The name therefore means ‘Mobile Work’ which we hope will help carry the concept through South Africa’s Bantu (Including other similar African languages) speaking population and will be catchy and easy enough to pronounce for others.