Botswana Twin Sisters Marry Same Husband
It has been said that twins share almost everything but sharing a husband may seem unimaginable. But Zambia’s Livingstone-based twin sisters Gracious and Grace are happily married to a man they gave conditions to, they said “take all or none.”
The Tswana, Botswana twins are married to 25-year-old Kays Kaundula, who lives in Livingstone Island in Zambia.
Kaundula, his wives Grace and Gracious and his three daughters from the two twin sisters show off their family and lifestyles.
Kaundula runs his own motor vehicle mechanical workshop in Livingstone Island’s residential area and shares a house with his wives.
Kaundula however was later to discover that the sisters shared a cell phone and that in his conversations he proposed love to both sisters and both accepted.
A visit to plot 140, the residence of Kaundula, was met with a sweet greeting of small twin girls, who are Kaundula’s four-year-old daughters from Gracious.
Gracious and Grace seem happily married and Gracious even says when her daughters grow up and decide to get married, she would want them to get married to one man.
“I want them to be together just like us. This is what we set for ourselves as we grew up and we are happy that we have achieved what is good for us and our children,” she says.
Asked what they would do if Kaundula decided to get another wife since he was already in a polygamous status, the two sisters at the same time reply, “we will divorce him.”
Kaundula’s marriage is one which he says he first could not understand as he was first confused when he met the two sisters.
“I was picked by an amateur football team to play in Gaborone in Botswana and after one game as I walked out of the stadium I was greeted with a sweet voice from one of my wives, I can’t tell who. I was told that I had played a nice game.
“From there I continued talking to her or now realise that it was them on a cell phone as I later discovered that they were using one phone so I was talking to either of the two every time I called,”Kaundula says.
He says their relationship continued from phone conversations until he was later to meet them again as if by destiny’s design in Livingstone when they visited one of their sisters.
“After I left Botswana, I enrolled at Livingstone Institute of Business and Engineering studies and I happened to one day meet one the twins when they came to visit their sister who was staying near the institute and from there here we are,” he said.
Kaundula, who is chief executive officer of Kays Auto Services dealing in engine overhaul, servicing, electric repairing and motor vehicle repair consultancy, says he was told by the twins when he proposed that they wanted to get married to one man and if he was not ready, he would have neither of them.
“I proposed and they told me that they have been discussing my proposals which I had been advancing through the phone. Mind you it was one phone that they shared and at that time they were much slimmer than now and I could not tell them apart, so I accepted and got married in 2007.
“My dowry was paid to my mother in-law who has since passed on in Botswana,”Kaundula says.
He said he underwent a few difficulties with his own family when he told them of the marriage arrangement.
“Some opposed and others seemed to agree but also said I was overloading myself. One funny thing I realised later was that on the day I met the twin in Botswana, I was greeted twice by a person I thought had greeted me earlier.
“I did not know that they were twins. It also surprised me that I fell in love with both of them and when I proposed they also said I would get none unless I got them both. They say love is not shared but for me it’s shared equally,”he says.
He says that he can now tell his wives apart, unlike the early days when he first met them. Kaundula says they would both answer to any of their names when he called.
“When I call and say Grace I would get a ‘yes’ at the other end when actually I was talking to Gracious. I have three daughters; one with Grace and twins with Gracious. I have Chiluba and Chipo aged four and one month old. Chiluba who is named after my only surviving sister who is a teacher in Mansa and the other after my other sibling Chipo who is in Lusaka.
“My other daughter from Grace is Blessings. I also have another brother in Lusaka (named) Paul,”Kaundula said.
Asked how people in the community react to the marital arrangement, Gracious and Grace say they have been told that they did a right thing.
“Our friends say we did a good thing and they envy us. I work at Tukale Lodge and my sister is at home helping with the children. On your question of him bringing another wife our only resolve would be to divorce him, we are very happy with the way we are staying as a family and that is what we want for our children,” Gracious says.
The sisters say they are the last children in a family of five and that all their relatives who are in Botswana approve of their marriage.
Kaundula has continued with his football career with Blue Arrows Football Club who train at the Zambezi Sports Club under the sponsorship of the Zambia Air Force.
Opere Moloko
July 19, 2012 at 12:25 pm
The ladies were not much to be blame,rather there family that tied the knots for same man…..Very soon,we shal hear daughter marries same man with her mother (assuming the mother marry another man)
eckomilano
July 19, 2012 at 12:26 pm
interesting, good ideal
Man2man
July 19, 2012 at 12:34 pm
Dats love for them…it isnt bad anyway
mryl
July 19, 2012 at 12:45 pm
Hmmm. Lovely i like it
Patricks oche J.O.
July 19, 2012 at 12:50 pm
There is nothing like unity.
Florence
July 19, 2012 at 12:56 pm
Na wa o
Uthmario
July 19, 2012 at 12:57 pm
Hmmm!
john godwin
July 19, 2012 at 1:12 pm
if d man shud divorce both of dem cn dey see another man dat wil b ready 2 accept both of dem? Dis is pure madness
Fergie
July 19, 2012 at 1:22 pm
Interesting
babe
July 19, 2012 at 1:27 pm
Absolute madness
Ibrahim moh
July 19, 2012 at 1:27 pm
It,s not in African cultuer and unGodly
Seyi
July 19, 2012 at 1:29 pm
In dis world we hear different story everyday bt i think dat’s thier choice,wish them good home.
Maigaskiya
July 19, 2012 at 1:33 pm
Madness of the highest order
juliet osuji
July 19, 2012 at 1:34 pm
i am an identical twain i dnt tink i can try such rubish. Even d bible is against it.
AKPOVETA, Philip A.
July 19, 2012 at 1:36 pm
it looks right in our eyes, but is it right in God’s sight???
yunusa issa
July 19, 2012 at 1:37 pm
Disguisting
Jummy
July 19, 2012 at 1:37 pm
Common dat nonsenses……………
Agunbiade Zainab Olusola
July 19, 2012 at 1:39 pm
madnesssssss indeed.
aggy
July 19, 2012 at 1:46 pm
thats nonsense…mtchewwwwwwww. i hissed for them
Boro
July 19, 2012 at 1:53 pm
This is love for U̶̲̥̅̊ wat matters is happiness & unity.
Anne Ochia
July 19, 2012 at 1:59 pm
Anything can happen
bisola olutu
July 19, 2012 at 2:13 pm
crazy n ungodly. wat will nt happen in dis world
Romeo
July 19, 2012 at 2:15 pm
Abomination i call dis.d world is coming 2 an end indeed.
Wale
July 19, 2012 at 2:15 pm
Life is all about choice.What God needs from us is agape love,faith,hope, holiness,peace and sincerity.From what I read,I can see these aformentioned qualities in Kaundula and his twin wives Grace and Gracious’s lives.Their some family I mean monogamy,that there is no PEACE let alone of LOVE.So,are they not better than monogamy…?
Kayode
July 19, 2012 at 2:34 pm
this is satanic…
K
July 19, 2012 at 2:34 pm
Dis is interestin
Tee
July 19, 2012 at 2:39 pm
Lovely idea, but I think God does not permit the two at once, but again the two are one since they agree
Saka Ibrahimadewale
July 19, 2012 at 2:58 pm
It is abomination in the religion of Muslim & chritian.
abigeal
July 19, 2012 at 3:29 pm
dis is pure madness,its end tym anyways.
Godwin Essang
July 19, 2012 at 3:30 pm
Since it makes them happy, it’s ok, but that is in sympathy with them. Nevertheless, it’s not a practice to be encouraged, because it’s morally and socially weird.
Habibu bello
July 19, 2012 at 3:54 pm
Is he fucking them at the same time….
babss
July 19, 2012 at 3:59 pm
I wish I am d 1
James
July 19, 2012 at 4:37 pm
It is a matter of choice.
amoo
July 19, 2012 at 4:42 pm
This is an abomination! No right thinking people will agree to this.
Saint
July 19, 2012 at 6:03 pm
God know the best.
Dadi zingchak
July 19, 2012 at 6:18 pm
Wow dat’s sumtim 2 pay attension 2 well 4 me ooo it 4 dere joy & hapiness is ok.
sydney
July 19, 2012 at 6:19 pm
there is love in sharing
Buhari Ali
July 19, 2012 at 6:20 pm
this is cool.
zanemeh oamen
July 19, 2012 at 7:03 pm
this is mystery of iniquity…incest …the antidote is untimely death
Odefa
July 19, 2012 at 9:51 pm
Madness rubbish trash and crap. No sane person will approve dis.
ebuka igwe
July 20, 2012 at 10:44 am
am intrestd 2 no if they ar being made love 2 together and impregantd 2gether and give birth together as they call themselves one. If not they ar stupid and let them be aware that one day the penis of there man may be problem. Til then
opeoluwa_
July 20, 2012 at 2:39 pm
Abi o
Chkezie
July 21, 2012 at 7:43 pm
Mhmhmhmm am short of words.
Lebo
July 22, 2012 at 12:57 pm
M shocked and full of questions, lyk hw das he divide hs time & attention btwn da ladies. Wht abt sexual intercouse and intimacy,?
michael
July 24, 2012 at 8:07 am
wow, is not bad since both wives are happily marred and living peacefully, is good.