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.