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Oprah Winfrey is shutting down her iconic girls’ school in South Africa at the end of next year—but her mission to empower young women through education isn’t ending. The Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy, which has nurtured over 500 graduates since opening two decades ago, will hand its campus over to the Gauteng provincial government. In its place, Oprah’s foundation is expanding a national scholarship program to help talented girls access top schools across the country. The school’s history includes serious allegations of abuse shortly after opening, which Oprah confronted head-on by traveling to South Africa, apologizing, and launching an investigation—resulting in the matron’s acquittal in 2010. As this chapter closes, Oprah’s commitment to lifting up girls’ futures through education continues in powerful, new ways.

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