Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://mypepack.gophersport.com/video/?vid=EHNJUavbbZP Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Oprah Winfrey Is Closing Her South Africa Girls’ Academy in 2027 to Reach More Young Women [u4yGLd99zsq] Health Updated on August 10, 2026 EDT — Published on August 10, 2026 EDT JOHANNESBURG – Two more classes of young women will graduate from Oprah Winfrey’s residential academy outside Johannesburg before the gates close for the last time. For every girl after them, the school that changed the lives of more than a thousand South Africans over nearly two decades will exist only as a scholarship. Winfrey announced Wednesday that the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls will end operations at its Henley on Klip campus by the close of 2027. What replaces it is deliberately broader: a scholarship program she says will reach double the number of girls the residential model ever could. JXSyMmxUKxq InrX2udW380 zfNbAkDH0WK XLtNIWbePrj MMAyvsLj3D9 ooRZiaMB9gV vyn8fMeUTX4
JOHANNESBURG – Two more classes of young women will graduate from Oprah Winfrey’s residential academy outside Johannesburg before the gates close for the last time. For every girl after them, the school that changed the lives of more than a thousand South Africans over nearly two decades will exist only as a scholarship. Winfrey announced Wednesday that the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls will end operations at its Henley on Klip campus by the close of 2027. What replaces it is deliberately broader: a scholarship program she says will reach double the number of girls the residential model ever could. JXSyMmxUKxq InrX2udW380 zfNbAkDH0WK XLtNIWbePrj MMAyvsLj3D9 ooRZiaMB9gV vyn8fMeUTX4