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The Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls – South Africa (OWLAG) is a boarding school for girls, grades 8–12, in Henley on Klip, Gauteng Province, South Africa The school is a project begun by the American entrepreneur and philanthropist Oprah Winfrey in 2002, after discussion with former South African president Nelson Mandela in 2000 ...
Anne van Zyl is a South African education administrator from Cape Town, South Africa.She is the headmistress of the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls. [1] She has also been headmistress at five different schools including Pretoria High School for Girls, St. Stithians College, Stanford Lake College and Bridge House School.
Winfrey invested $40 million and some of her time establishing the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls in Henley on Klip south of Johannesburg, South Africa. The school, set over 22 acres, opened in January 2007 with an enrollment of 150 pupils (increasing to 450) and features state-of-the-art classrooms, computer and science ...
After a 2000 visit to South Africa, she contributed more than $40 million toward the creation of the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls. It opened in South Africa in January 2007 and now ...
CHICAGO, IL – MARCH 04: A worker walks by Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Studios on March 4, 2015 in Chicago, Illinois. Winfrey announced that she would be closing the facility which once housed her ...
But it was Winfrey’s tribute to Tessie Prevost Williams, who, as a young Black girl in 1960, desegregated her public school in New Orleans under dangerous threats, that made her endorsement of ...
In 2013, she received her master's degree in Public Health (Epidemiology) from the UC Berkeley School of Public Health. [10] In May 2011, Oprah Winfrey revealed that Trent was her all-time favorite guest, and donated $1.5 million so that Trent could build her own school in her old village in Zimbabwe. [9] [11] [12] The
In 2017, Winfrey told Variety she spent an estimated $140 million over the past 10 years to keep the boarding school for underprivileged girls in grades eight to 12 running.