South African comedian, television host, producer, writer, political commentator, and actor, Trevor Noah was born on the 20th of February 1984 in Johannesburg, South Africa to a black South African mother and a white European father.
Trevor’s father, Robert, is of Swiss ancestry, and his mother, Patricia Nombuyiselo Noah, is of Xhosa ancestry. Noah’s mother was classified as Black, and his father was classified as White. Noah himself was classified as Coloured.
At the time of his birth, his parents’ interracial relationship was illegal under apartheid law, and Noah highlights this in his autobiography. Interracial sexual relations and marriages were not decriminalized until a year after Noah’s birth, when the Immorality Act was amended in 1985.
Patricia and her mother, Nomalizo Frances Noah, raised Trevor in the black township of Soweto. In 1992, Noah’s mother, Patricia Nombuyiselo married Ngisaveni Abel Shingange; they had two sons together, Andrew and Isaac. Shingange physically abused both Trevor and his mother, and the couple legally divorced in 1996.
In 2009, after Patricia married Sfiso Khoza, Shingange shot her in the leg and through the back of her head; she survived as the bullet went through the base of her head, avoiding the spinal cord, brain, and all major nerves and blood vessels, then exiting with minor damage to her nostril. When Noah confronted him over the phone about the shooting, Shingange threatened his life, prompting Noah to leave Johannesburg for Los Angeles
Noah went to Maryvale College, a private Roman Catholic high school in Johannesburg where he started his career in the year 2002 by taking small role on an episode of the South African soap opera Isidingo. He later began hosting his own radio show Noah’s Ark on Gauteng’s leading youth radio station, YFM.
Trevor Noah net worth is estimated at $40 million. An equivalence of 621 million Rands. He is the most successful comedian in Africa. The television siren is evidently making steady progress not only in his career but also personal life. He owned a Lamborghini and a Porsche, which he sold when he moved to New York. Trevor Noah house has attracted much of the public attention, a property he acquired at a whopping $10 million.
