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.
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