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Man married to identical twins
15 Feb 2014 at 14:17hrs | Views
Catherine and Tendai Mashingaidze are identical twins. You cannot distinguish one from the other if you have not stayed with them for some time.
The Mashingaidze sisters can be jovial as much as they can be nasty. However, the community around Madya, Dick, Jarawani, Mundandi and Mubvunzwi villages in Chief Chimombe's area in Buhera know them better for the later than the earlier.
They can have bitter physical fights between themselves but at the same time they will not have anyone coming in between them; at least if that position offends one or both of them. They always come together to defend each other, their mother, father or their siblings.
If you offend one of them or one of their parents, they are quick to gang up, pay you a visit and at least after it you will rue the day you were born.
Now Catherine and Tendai are married to one man and Davison Dongo has a story to tell.
"I married the twins, one after the other. Life can be very fun with them but it can also be hell. We live in both worlds. If one of them gets pregnant, the other one must also get pregnant or that can cause you sleepless nights.
"Now they both have three children each and each set of children came in the same year," said Dongo.
Dongo sat with his twin wives as they gave an interview to The Mirror last week and at first the wives wanted to paint a bed of roses for the marriage until Dongo cautioned and said, "let's say things as they are".
How did the two of you get married to one husband? Is it that you are inseparable, came the question from The Mirror.
Catherine who was the first to get married initially said that she had always wanted to be with her twin sister and she was pleased when the sister joined her in marriage in 2009. Tendai also said it was the most pleasurable thing to happen to her that she was sharing a husband with her sister.
Dongo intervened and told his wives to say the truth.
Then the three started giving their different versions.
"When my wife Catherine fell pregnant, she could not walk around with me but at the same time she was jealous. She therefore invited her twin sister Tendai to come and stay with us and it was the twin sister who would accompany me to the dip tank, to the shops, to the grinding mill, to the fields or even to the bar.
"In the process I would try to get Tendai a boyfriend particularly one that I knew was good but she refused all of them. One day she told me mockingly that she didn't understand why I was trying to get her a man when I was there.
"Are you not a man yourself, she asked and laughed at me," said Dongo.
Dongo said this was the time that he realised his sister-in-law could be in love with him.
"It gave me another thought and I then fancied her. I started delaying her whenever we went out together and we got into the habit of arriving home late. The unexpected happened one evening and she was very furious with me. She refused to enter into the house and she threatened to tell her sister Catherine and her parents about what I had done to her that night. He sister also became very suspicious and threatened to beat up her twin sister.
"However, thereafter we did not stop the new relationship and we would secretly meet until Tendai got pregnant three months later. It shattered the two of us and I had to send her away to Harare before people discovered.
"I then left for Chiadzwa where I started panning for diamonds and I called Tendai from Harare and we started staying together there," said Dongo.
He said it was then that Catherine discovered that her twin sister was pregnant and all hell broke loose. Catherine went to Chiadzwa looking for the two and the husband hid away Tendai. Many people were surprised that the woman that they had seen pregnant a few days earlier had given birth and was walking briskly in the streets.
"They would then ask Catherine as to what happened to her pregnancy and this made her more convinced that her sister was pregnant and was somewhere there in Chiadzwa", said Dongo.
Eventually there was no option but to tell the truth.
The news was broken to Catherine and she accepted the fate and gave her husband the blessings to go ahead and marry Tendai but grudgingly.
And all hell broke loose!
The two demanded a strict roster for the bedroom and with this, Dongo has agreed to do two nights with one sister and another two with the other. This timetable cannot be broken no matter the circumstances.
There is even a more difficult demand; if one twin gets pregnant, the other one must also get pregnant otherwise it will be a big issue.
"If Catherine gets pregnant, Tendai must also get pregnant and virse-versa. So they now have three children each and all sets of children between the two women are a few months apart because none can be left out in getting pregnant. Its quite a task to be married to these two girls," said Dongo.
Tendai said jokingly that when they visit relatives they always share one bedroom, the three of them.
"Our husband must always sleep in the middle. I don't refute the fact that at times certain things happen between our husband and one of us during the night. If that happens, then the other one would always know that the next day would be her turn. We accept that; we are twins we have been sharing all things in life and the bedroom cannot be an issue to us.
"Haasi madeal angatichityisa kuti tarara nomurume wedu tiri vaviri," said Tendai.
Dongo says the twins have also caused him terrible time.
He says if they hear or suspect that any woman in the vicinity has a relationship with him or is close to him, they gang up and they go and assault the suspected rival.
"People are afraid of them and I have had a number of court and Police cases as a result of their aggression. They can also gang up and fight me if they are offended by anything. Right now we are waiting to go to court over a certain case involving violence," said Dongo.
Tendai and Catherine can unleash the same on anyone who crosses the path of any of their member of family including mother and father. This, many people said, had been their approach since they were young girls in school.
"This is why people here describe them as the terrible twins," said a villager who requested anonymity.
However, they can be such jovial girls, smiling cracking jokes and getting wildly funny. They support each other on every subject except when they pit against each other in their rivalry for the husband.
The Mashingaidze sisters can be jovial as much as they can be nasty. However, the community around Madya, Dick, Jarawani, Mundandi and Mubvunzwi villages in Chief Chimombe's area in Buhera know them better for the later than the earlier.
They can have bitter physical fights between themselves but at the same time they will not have anyone coming in between them; at least if that position offends one or both of them. They always come together to defend each other, their mother, father or their siblings.
If you offend one of them or one of their parents, they are quick to gang up, pay you a visit and at least after it you will rue the day you were born.
Now Catherine and Tendai are married to one man and Davison Dongo has a story to tell.
"I married the twins, one after the other. Life can be very fun with them but it can also be hell. We live in both worlds. If one of them gets pregnant, the other one must also get pregnant or that can cause you sleepless nights.
"Now they both have three children each and each set of children came in the same year," said Dongo.
Dongo sat with his twin wives as they gave an interview to The Mirror last week and at first the wives wanted to paint a bed of roses for the marriage until Dongo cautioned and said, "let's say things as they are".
How did the two of you get married to one husband? Is it that you are inseparable, came the question from The Mirror.
Catherine who was the first to get married initially said that she had always wanted to be with her twin sister and she was pleased when the sister joined her in marriage in 2009. Tendai also said it was the most pleasurable thing to happen to her that she was sharing a husband with her sister.
Dongo intervened and told his wives to say the truth.
Then the three started giving their different versions.
"When my wife Catherine fell pregnant, she could not walk around with me but at the same time she was jealous. She therefore invited her twin sister Tendai to come and stay with us and it was the twin sister who would accompany me to the dip tank, to the shops, to the grinding mill, to the fields or even to the bar.
"In the process I would try to get Tendai a boyfriend particularly one that I knew was good but she refused all of them. One day she told me mockingly that she didn't understand why I was trying to get her a man when I was there.
"Are you not a man yourself, she asked and laughed at me," said Dongo.
Dongo said this was the time that he realised his sister-in-law could be in love with him.
"It gave me another thought and I then fancied her. I started delaying her whenever we went out together and we got into the habit of arriving home late. The unexpected happened one evening and she was very furious with me. She refused to enter into the house and she threatened to tell her sister Catherine and her parents about what I had done to her that night. He sister also became very suspicious and threatened to beat up her twin sister.
"However, thereafter we did not stop the new relationship and we would secretly meet until Tendai got pregnant three months later. It shattered the two of us and I had to send her away to Harare before people discovered.
"I then left for Chiadzwa where I started panning for diamonds and I called Tendai from Harare and we started staying together there," said Dongo.
He said it was then that Catherine discovered that her twin sister was pregnant and all hell broke loose. Catherine went to Chiadzwa looking for the two and the husband hid away Tendai. Many people were surprised that the woman that they had seen pregnant a few days earlier had given birth and was walking briskly in the streets.
"They would then ask Catherine as to what happened to her pregnancy and this made her more convinced that her sister was pregnant and was somewhere there in Chiadzwa", said Dongo.
Eventually there was no option but to tell the truth.
The news was broken to Catherine and she accepted the fate and gave her husband the blessings to go ahead and marry Tendai but grudgingly.
And all hell broke loose!
The two demanded a strict roster for the bedroom and with this, Dongo has agreed to do two nights with one sister and another two with the other. This timetable cannot be broken no matter the circumstances.
There is even a more difficult demand; if one twin gets pregnant, the other one must also get pregnant otherwise it will be a big issue.
"If Catherine gets pregnant, Tendai must also get pregnant and virse-versa. So they now have three children each and all sets of children between the two women are a few months apart because none can be left out in getting pregnant. Its quite a task to be married to these two girls," said Dongo.
Tendai said jokingly that when they visit relatives they always share one bedroom, the three of them.
"Our husband must always sleep in the middle. I don't refute the fact that at times certain things happen between our husband and one of us during the night. If that happens, then the other one would always know that the next day would be her turn. We accept that; we are twins we have been sharing all things in life and the bedroom cannot be an issue to us.
"Haasi madeal angatichityisa kuti tarara nomurume wedu tiri vaviri," said Tendai.
Dongo says the twins have also caused him terrible time.
He says if they hear or suspect that any woman in the vicinity has a relationship with him or is close to him, they gang up and they go and assault the suspected rival.
"People are afraid of them and I have had a number of court and Police cases as a result of their aggression. They can also gang up and fight me if they are offended by anything. Right now we are waiting to go to court over a certain case involving violence," said Dongo.
Tendai and Catherine can unleash the same on anyone who crosses the path of any of their member of family including mother and father. This, many people said, had been their approach since they were young girls in school.
"This is why people here describe them as the terrible twins," said a villager who requested anonymity.
However, they can be such jovial girls, smiling cracking jokes and getting wildly funny. They support each other on every subject except when they pit against each other in their rivalry for the husband.
Source - Mirror
