Oprah Winfrey has announced that her leadership academy for girls in South Africa will close at the end of the 2027 academic year, nearly 20 years after it was established.
The Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls (OWLAG), a boarding school campus near Johannesburg, said in a press release that the school will be handed over to local education authorities in accordance with the original agreement reached when the institution was founded.
The foundation added that students who have not completed their studies before the closure will receive full scholarships to continue their education at other schools.
Winfrey launched the academy in 2007, inspired by a meeting with anti-apartheid icon and former South African President Nelson Mandela in 2002.
The school was established to provide quality education for academically gifted girls from disadvantaged communities and has graduated more than 1,000 students since its inception.
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