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Under the apartheid government, the school history syllabus ended in the late 19th century. It was compiled with the white population in mind, and therefore ended before the two Anglo-Boer Wars took place - these would, it was thought, still have political repercussions and should therefore not be discussed at school. Of course, there wasn't a separate syllabus for each population group! But clearly Trevor Noah and his friends, and thousands like them, could have found out about Nazism if they'd gone to a public library or just asked their parents ... political parties like the African National Congress and the Liberal Party, both banned under apartheid, though the ANC at least continued as an underground movement, drew the obvious parallels beween apartheid and Nazism. BJ Vorster, who became Prime Minister after the assassination of Dr Verwoerd in 1966, had been detained during the Second World War for supporting Germany and committing acts of sabotage against the then government, which supported the Allies. So, the facts were there to be seen. People do not only know what they learn at school, or they need not confine themselves to that.