WANTED: HUSBAND #2

Local twins Olwethu and Owami are on the hunt for their Mr Right - again

- LESEGO MKHIZE

IT'S safe to say they're as close as two licks of paint. They share the same bed, bath together, wear the same clothes, studied the same thing, and followed each other into the same jobs.

Owami and Olwethu Siko even married the same man and had baby girls within two months of each other making their children sisters as well as cousins.

The 31-year-old twins have also experienced the same heartache. Their marriage to their husband - a prominent TV producer – was fraught with problems and the women packed their bags and left him two years ago.

The twins are now looking for an eligible bachelor to marry them both - and Owami and Olwethu have made their search public: they're the stars of a new Mzansi Magic reality show called Twice as Bold, a 13-episode series that follows the sisters as they go in pursuit of love, attempt to reconnect with their mother, share their spiritual journey and navigate parenthood.

Their life choices may have raised eyebrows but they wouldn't have it any other way, they say. They've always done everything together so it makes sense that would apply to marriage too.

Their ex didn't think twice when they told him they came as a package deal. After a whirlwind romance, he married the sisters in the same ceremony. He was 40, they were 21.

“It was an arranged marriage," Olwethu says. “He wanted to be with pure girls (virgins). We all slept together in one bed, it wasn't anything unusual - if anything we were both at peace to be together" Owami adds.

For a while their union was happy but they claim it descended into emotional and physical abuse – and finding out he was already married and had fathered 12 children from different women was the last straw. They called time on the marriage after nine years.