OPRAH WINFREY CELEBRATES WITH SOUTH AFRICAN GIRLS

The first set of students has graduated from Oprah Winfrey’s $ 40 million elite school for underprivileged girls in South Africa. 72 out of a class of 75 girls

graduated and Oprah says the girls will be headed to Universities in the United States and South Africa for further studies. Oprah one of the world’s richest and most powerful women opened the South African leadership academy for girls in 2007 with immense support from South Africa’s former president Nelson Mandela. She had promise part of the graduation activity to be a first of its kind pyjamas party. She was seen dancing and called herself a proud mother of all the students who had a similar abused childhood like her.

The school has impacted on the lives of so many girls but has had its own share of scandals include the sexual allegations of a head mistress sexually abusing the students which led to a court case and an out of court settling and the firing of the school’s head mistress by Oprah Winfrey for allegedly ignoring the sexual complaints of students. Also a dead baby believed to have been born by one of the students was found on the school’s premises.

See pictures of Oprah and her students on her recent South African trip.

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• O. George
• International College and University, Nelson Mandela, Oprah Winfrey, South Africa
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