Trevor Noah was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, during the apartheid era. His mother was a Xhosa woman from South Africa, and his father was a white man from Switzerland. Because interracial relationships were illegal at the time, his parents had to conceal their relationship from the authorities. Noah was raised by his mother and grandmother in Soweto, an urban area just outside Johannesburg that was set aside for Black people. Fearing for his safety, they sometimes had to hide Noah from the police because biracial children were often taken from their parents. When he was about 10 years old, apartheid ended.
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