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  • The Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls

    We're an independent boarding school, founded by Oprah Winfrey to provide world-class education to previously disadvantaged girls in South Africa from Grade 8 to Grade 12.

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Students

We strive to raise future leaders who are able to navigate a variety of social and cultural contexts, and who will remain committed to the development of South Africa and the African continent.

The Foundation

From the start, Oprah Winfrey knew that university study was essential to the students achieving their professional and personal goals, contributing to society and establishing financial independence.

News

Oprah Winfrey Celebrates her South African Students at Graduations in the US

“I was looking for smart, bright, giving, resilient, kind and open-hearted young girls who had the ‘it’, a factor that means you keep going no matter what”, said Oprah Winfrey, Founder of the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls (OWLAG) during her commencement address at the University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communications and Journalism in May.

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Sport Term 2

This term the co-curricular sporting programme has moved into full ‘Winter’ mode. Although we carry some of our ‘summer’ codes through the winter terms, Team Games are the main focus of the winter sporting programme.

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Franschhoek Literacy Festival

On Thursday, 17 May, the Grade 12 Advanced Programme English students, along with two of the Round Square exchange students, travelled to the Western Cape for the 2018 Franschhoek Literary Festival.

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Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy Students Flying High

24 year old Lindiwe Tsope from the Class of 2012 at the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy has just graduated with a master’s degree in Sociology from Rhodes University.

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Fractured Fairytales

The OWLAG Dance Company performed a Black and White original dance work called ‘Fractured Fairytales’ on the 4th and 5th of May to a packed OWLAG theatre. The unusual use of Black and White created a strange dreamscape that colour never could

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Valentine Rampora Awarded a Royal Academy of Dance Bursary

Valentine Rampora was awarded the Fiona Campbell Bursary. This will fund the cost of her Royal Academy of Dance (RAD) Advanced 1 examination. Bursaries are available worldwide to exam candidates of RAD teachers

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A Stellar Achievement at Stellenbosch for Nqobile

Nqobile Hadebe, a 2016 OWLAG graduate studying Social Dynamics at the University of Stellenbosch, is among 32 students selected for the First-Year Achievement Award.

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OWLAG Hosts IEB Dance Studies National Conference

OWLAG had the pleasure of hosting the 2018 IEB National Dance Studies Conference. The conference was well attended by enthusiastic teachers from all over South Africa and enabled dance teachers to meet, network and discuss the syllabus and examinations. 

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