Born A Crime Timeline
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Updated: 20 May 2019
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Created byLavender Hill
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Trevor Noah: Born February 20, 1984Trevor's mother throws Trevor out of a car to escape an angry minibus driver after Church on SundayNelson Mandela is released from prisonEnd of Apartheid: April 27, 1994At age 3 he digs a tunnel out of the yard and escapes to play with other kids.
He didn't understand that being mixed was illegal in South Africa during Apartheid
and his family feared for his safety.Trevor meets another mixed South African
native whose family smuggled them out of the country.Trevor's 80-year-old grandfather Temperance Noah
tries to start a boxing match with 12-year-old TrevorAt age 5 Trevor decided that he didn't want to use the outdoor
communal toilet and instead did his business on a newspaper indoors.
To avoid getting in trouble he quietly threw his waste in a trashcan.
When his mother got home and found it she thought that it was the work of demons.
His family as well as neighbors got together and burned the newspaper in a mass prayer
to rid their house of bad spirits.Trevor is sent to a government school and is placed in advanced classes.
At recess, all the races separate and Trevor and an Indian kid are left by themselves.
Trevor shows him all the different African languages he can speak.
Amazed the Indian kid shows the other kids at recess.
The others realize that he might look different but Trevor
is still "apart of their tribe" through language.Trevor's family moved to a mixed
neighborhood called Eden Park.Trevor brings a knife to school to scare away
a bully and is sent to a psychologist for the third time.
She sides with him and allows him to leave Catholic school.Trevor's mother starts dating AbelTrevor accidentally burns down a white family's house with matchesTrevor's mother brings home two dogs and names them Fufi and Panther.
Trevor gets to keep Fufi.Trevor visits his father for the first time since he was 13Trevor's father moves to Cape TownTrevor got money by being the fastest kid in school.
People would make orders for the food they wanted him to pick up in the
lunch line and when he did he'd get paid.Trevor developed a crush on high
school friend ZaheeraZaheera moved to the United StatesTrevor goes to prom with a girl named Babiki
The date is arranged by his friend TimTrevor started selling pirated cdsTrevor starts djingTrevor moved out of his mother's houseTrevor's brother, Andrew is bornAbel shot Trevor's mom in the leg and the head.
She miraculously survives.
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