Khaya Dlanga on Death, South Africa, Mandela & Starting a New Life | What Now? with Trevor Noah

Khaya Dlanga planned his entire life believing he wouldn't make it past 41. Then he turned 42 — and realized he had no plan for the rest of his life.

Khaya Dlanga joins Trevor Noah and Eugene for a deeply personal and hilarious conversation about life, death, and everything in between.

From personal realization to South African taxi culture, corrupt politicians, the most gangster jury imaginable, funerals, near-death experiences, shoes flying off in car crashes, Stevie Wonder and Nelson Mandela, Dolly Parton, and why Khaya has a very unusual way of ending conversations.

It’s funny, unexpected, deeply South African, and occasionally much more serious than you might expect.

Watch the full conversation and let us know in the comments: If you knew you had outlived the age you thought you would die, what would you do differently?

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0:00 - Cold Open: Dolly Parton's Funeral Plans
2:00 - South African "Clap Once" Culture
3:30 - Trevor Derails Meetings in America
5:30 - Testifying Before Congress (SA Style)
9:00 - State Capture & The Zondo Commission
12:00 - The Guy Arrested 7 Times (With a Lunch Box)
16:00 - Do South African Commissions Have Teeth?
19:00 - Right to Remain Silent: SA vs USA
21:00 - Why South Africa Needs Juries
25:00 - Legal Twitter & Springbok Pilots
27:00 - The Flyover: Were Those Planes Too Low?
34:00 - Malcolm Gladwell, Hierarchy & Plane Crashes
36:30 - Taxi Stickers: South Africa's First Comedy
43:00 - No Fat People in the Front Seat
45:00 - The Emergency Exit That Said "Kick Here"
48:00 - Why Shoes Come Off in Accidents
55:00 - Eugene's Motorcycle Crash (Somersault x2)
1:03:00 - Two Crashes in Two Days
1:06:00 - Do You Know When You're Dying in Your Sleep?
1:08:00 - Eugene's "Inception" — Vaseline in the Nose
1:12:00 - Funerals in Eswatini vs South Africa
1:18:00 - Trevor's Grandmother's Funeral on Zoom
1:24:00 - The Church Spam-Pam: Trevor's First Instrument
1:32:00 - Prayer Shade: Grannies Throwing Hands in Prayer
1:38:00 - Khaya's Revelation: "I Thought I'd Die at 41"
1:44:00 - Dolly Parton, Black South Africa & Stevie Wonder
1:51:00 - Stevie Wonder Wrote That Song for Mandela??
1:55:00 - Khaya's New Life: Marriage, Kids & Starting Over
1:58:00 - How Khaya Ends Conversations (Sitcom Style)
2:02:00 - Outro & Stevie Wonder Fact Check