WIFE WITH TWO HUSBANDS

LAVUMISA – A 34-year-old woman is married to  two men through Swazi Law and Custom and has children with both of them.

Sibonisile Mamba is still seeing both husbands by making rounds between them at scheduled times, usually spending the first half of the month at one marital homestead and the other half at another.

The husbands are Saneliso Maziya from Pigg’s Peak, a teacher at Ndabazezwe High School and Watson Maseko, a truck driver from Mankayane who works in South Africa.
This has gone unnoticed by both men for seven years, until two weeks ago when the men eventually discovered and met to discuss their rare experience.

The meeting took place at the Lavumisa Police Station and lasted for 24 hours with the police resolving to fetch the families of both husbands and that of the woman.

Identified

They convened before the station commander and three other officers, four men who had accompanied Maseko, one man who was accompanying Maziya and the wife.
It was during this meeting that Mamba identified both men as her husbands.
“She told the police that she was married to both of us and that she loved us both,” said one of the husbands.

The scene unfolded after Maziya, who had started smelling a rat with regard to the child’s paternity, spotted his wife’s car being driven by a man he did not know at the Lavumisa Border Gate.
He confronted the man and asked him about the car and learnt that the man had borrowed it  from Maseko, with whom they were friends and worked together in SA.

Investigations

“I did not disclose anything to the man but then made my investigations and eventually traced Ma-seko and we scheduled the Tuesday meeting at the police station. He came with four men and we started talking, where it transpired that we had both married Mamba and each had a child with her,” he said.

During the meeting, Maziya produced evidence in the form of the child’s birth certificate where it also stated that he had married her through Swazi Law and Custom in 2009 and they bore the two-year-old child together.
Maseko did not produce any form of evidence but insisted he married Mamba in 2006 and paid dowry this year. 

Tension began to mount as the meeting dragged until 2am on Wednesday resulting in the police refusing to release the two parties hence the decision to fetch their families from their respective homes.

Dispatched

Maziya and Maseko were ordered to identify their relatives and two police vans were dispatched to Pigg’s Peak and Mankayane.
On return at about 7am it was also suggested that Mamba’s family should also form part of the meeting and a van was sent to fetch her mother and uncle.

At about 10am the group was locked in another meeting where the events of the previous evening and the night were narrated with the police occasionally seeking clarity from Mamba as to how she regarded the two men, to which she would respond and say they were her husbands, it was said.
When called on Thursday Maseko first confirmed the matter but later on threatened the reporter.
“Woe unto to you if you pursue the story. You will be in for it,” he said in a telephonic interview from Zambia where he said he currently was.

He insisted that the reporter should drop the article and said it involved him and he needed no publicity. He repeated several times that the reporter had attracted trouble by getting the story in the first place, “Sitawucabanela kona loko kuyati kwakho lendzaba. Wena utifake enkingeni lokuyati, sewutayi-mema-ke lendzaba,” he said before he hung up.

Warned

Mamba’s mother could not be reached for comment by the time of going to print.
Police Public Relations Officer Superintendent Wendy Hleta confirmed the matter and warned against dishonesty in relationships, saying this was one major cause of domestic violence.
Hleta applauded the two men for showing maturity in the manner they handled the situation.
“They are in a difficult situation but they managed to give the police an opportunity to work on the matter and not allow their tempers to flare.

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