The Triple M Mammmas Kurk About AzaNya! is a sketch comedy show starring a troupe of four African ladies who use satire, parody and pastiche to hold up a critical mirror to society to reflect socio, political and economic issues faced by South Africans today. In this show, the “mammmas” are the founders of a local stokvel that caters at “mekete, manyalo le mafu” and offer a taste of their world acclaimed dish: “Nnete” (meaning truth)! 

The Triple M Mammmas Kurk About AzaNya! is performed by the Thenx ladies Kitty Moepang, Tumy Motsoatsoe, MoMo Matsunyane, and Zethu Dlomo. Inspired by comedy gems like The Pure Monate Show, Late Night News with Loyiso Gola and The Catherine Tate Show these ladies will make you laugh and cry at the same time. Thenx hosted the 2015 Savannah Comic’s Choice Awards and performed at the 2015 Tedx Johannesburg Conference: The State of the Nation in Four Part Harmony https://youtu.be/i2bqE2Qms8g . Their play AzaNya is Five To! received an Ovation Award at the 2016 National Arts Festival. 

Presented as part of POPUpstairs. Supported by the National Arts Council of South Africa 

Audience feedback:

I remember watching Trevor Noah do one of his sets years ago and I knew immediately that he was going to be huge, I got the same feeling after watching Thenx. Literally goose bumps the entire show! – Jason Goliath

Sassy. Sharp. Saying it like they think it is! Thoroughly enjoyable – Mike Van Graan

Excellent! Uplifting comedy!! These girls should be famous and making the whole of South Africa laugh!

Audience Responses

This was one of the best shows I've seen at Alexander Bar. Brilliantly written and executed satire with no holy cows. Please bring them back for another run.

I have been waiting to see the THENX crew in action for so long, having heard the most amazing things about them. What everyone says, it's all true...and then some. They are uncompromising, direct, in your face, brutal, laugh out loud funny, and also almost heartbreakingly poignant. While it's not always easy viewing, it's performance that needs to be seen all over the country and let it stimulate the awkward conversations that need to be had. There has been a very clever design to the programming of the PopUpstairs season at Alex Bar this year - first was the inspired pairing of "Penny" and "Kafka's Ape". This time it's the juxtaposition of Lebo's "The Real Dirt" and "The Triple M Mammmas Kurk About AzanNya!". If you have a heartbeat and care about theatre, the country, and how we respond to it, take yourself to the Alex Bar and watch it all get real. You'll be so pleased you did.

It was a fabulous and very important show for Cape Town. A great piece for conversation with my friends afterwards and the actors were amazing.

Excellent show by very sharp, talented and smart young women! Impressive and entertaining.

Great show! Sharp satire. Good acting. Funny and original

It was a fabulous and very important show for Cape Town. A great piece for conversation with my friends afterwards and the actors were amazing.

Excellent show by very sharp, talented and smart young women! Impressive and entertaining.

I enjoyed the production so much! One of the best shows that I had ever attended.

One of the best, funniest, most relevant, exciting shows I have seen. I am still thinking about it. I am struggling with how polite my response was to the white, CIS Zillephile racist. Why didn't I scream my head off? We have a lot of work to do. Thank you Triple M foursome. It was enlightening (in a black way), deep, sore and brilliant. May you go from strength to strength.