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Born February 20, 1984 in Johannesburg, he is the son of a South African of Xhosa ethnicity named Patricia. His father's name is Robert and he is a Swiss, of German-speaking ethnicity. There will be no romance worthy of Novelas, let alone in the middle of Apartheid. Marriage and romantic relationships between blacks and whites are illegal. Additionally, blacks in Soweto could ostracize, in less violent cases, Trevor Noah's mother if they found out about her relationship with a white man. As the comedian explains in his autobiography, he was "a crime." Her mother faced fines and a five-year prison term for her birth. For this reason, Trevor Noah lived, the vast majority of his childhood and adolescence, in hiding. “When I was little, we had Apartheid in South Africa. I have suffered a lot of racism. My mother being black and my father being white, their marriage being illegal, we could not live together. My mom is one of the most "Gangsta" people you could meet on the planet. Racism was omnipresent, but nothing reached it. We were walking down the street one day when a man across the street insulted us. I was about 5 years old and I asked my mother what we could do against racists. She said, "We take their racism from them and mix it with the love of Jesus and send them back," "he recalls. “I asked my mother what we can do against racists. She said, "We take their racism and mix it with the love of Jesus and send them back." One day, while crossing the street, Trevor Noah is called a negro by a white American. He will respond without even foreseeing it with a big smile and a "hi my brother". "My answer stunned him. He parked and looked at his hands as if they had suddenly turned black. He thought he was having a quiet day as a racist. It was bad to know me. I am Patricia's son ”. Robert, Trevor's father ends up leaving and abandoning his family. Regardless, he was hardly ever there. Trevor Noah remembers it as someone who was "closed like a book." In 1992, his mother Patricia married a black South African.