They’d fly down hills and back up the other side at great speeds, like a rollercoaster. The World's Best Book SummariesWho is Trevor Noah’s mom?

She ensured that he learnt English, a language that only the whites had the privilege to learn at that time. According to her mother, she never behaved like a girl should. She later got married to Sfizo Khoza.Sometime last year, she had a court battle after Elliot Mabua, his electrician, claimed that she failed to pay him after he worked at one of her units in Johannesburg. 'Trevor has caused Africa's drum to beat again, he has encouraged many to walk on the water and stand on the sea,' she said. Shortly after, Abel’s abusiveness got worse and she left him after he tried to kill her. Later, they moved to the white suburb of Highlands North where the only blacks available beside her were the maids. When Trevor’s step brother called him to inform him about the ordeal, he felt so much wrath. It is not even a Biblical name. Trevor Noah’s mom, Patricia, isn’t into fame. She conceived Noah after Robert rented her a room in Johannesburg. Trevor Noah’s mom taught him to be assertive, creative, and independent.She eventually moved into her own bedroom for a year or two. Before moving to Jo’burg, she had been working as a secretary in Xhosa homeland even though during the apartheid, black women were excluded from secretary jobs. She miraculously survived after the bullet went into the back of her head and out through her nose, missing her brain and arteries. Trevor Noah knows a thing or two about resilience and strength.It’s a trait he learned from his mother, Patricia Noah, who was shot in the head by his stepfather. At one time, she had to save Trevor by throwing him out of a moving bus. She moved to Johannesburg to get herself a life when she was about 22 years old.Patricia was born in South Africa.

All this was done to evade the long arm of the law that promoted racism.However, reports have it that a while ago, he confided in one of the officials close to King Goodwill Zwelithini, stating that she felt that Trevor had abandoned her as she felt like he had found a new family in New York.At the age of 21, Patricia was ready to evade the predetermined destiny of most black children, commonly known as ‘black tax’. Noah's mom Patricia is equally as proud of her son's achievement. It’s just a name. Trevor was born in Johannesburg to two loving parents, Patricia Noah and Robert Noah.Patricia has lived an extraordinary life, boasting many personal accomplishments and triumphs over an abusive then-husband, whom she is now divorced from, and immigration. My mother wanted he child beholden to no fate. The court then ordered her to pay him R4500, where Patricia filed a motion at the South Gauteng High Court, asking for a review since according to her, she never mandated for Mabua or his company to provide any electrical repairs at any of her properties. They had 2 sons together and got legally divorced in 1996. She’s published dozens of articles and book reviews spanning a wide range of topics, including health, relationships, psychology, science, and much more.

When caught, you risk being imprisoned for 5 years. And Noah, naming his Netflix comedy special, “Trevor Noah: Son of Patricia” after her, clearly feels indebted to her for much of his success in life.Amanda Penn is a writer and reading specialist. There is a Netflix movie titled ‘Son of Patricia’ where Lupita Nyong’o asked to play the role of Trevor’s mother, Patricia.Patricia Nombuyiselo Noah is a South African woman who happens to be the world-acclaimed comedian and the Daily Show host Trevor Noah’s biological mother. Her mother complied, but her father sent her to go live with her sister in Transkei where she never reunited with either of them for the next 12 years.

She chose to give birth to Noah as an act of protest during apartheid and raised Noah primarily on her own. She wanted me to be free to go anywhere, do anything, be anyone.’- Born A Crime. Trevor is Robert’s child whereas Andrew and Issac are Abel’s sons.Patricia’s ex-husband is Ngisaveni Abel Shingange. It was even illegal to fall in love with someone of a different race. She has her own businesses, properties and companies in South Africa that she runs. While walking on the streets, she had to pretend that he was not her son. Her current net worth is not yet public but she is one wealthy businesswoman.‘When it was time to pick my name, she called me ‘Trevor’, a name with no meaning whatsoever in South Africa, no precedent in my family. Patricia knew that if she continued living in Soweto, she will not amount to anything in life. This means that Trevor was born a crime, just as he named his book where he explained his life as a mixed child in South Africa during the apartheid.Patricia Noah is the mother to Trevor Noah, one of the world’s highest paid comedians.