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The Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls, opened in Gauteng in 2007 with a reported personal investment of more than 40 million dollars, is closing. Nearly two decades of operation produced a body of evidence unusual in philanthropy: a single, intensively funded intervention, run long enough to observe outcomes across an entire educational generation.

• Consistently high matriculation results, with university placement rates far above the national average for South African state schooling.
• Graduates in medicine, law, engineering and public service, many of the first in their families to complete tertiary education.
• A comprehensive support model — boarding, counselling, healthcare, university funding — that removed the attrition points that end most talented students' trajectories.
• A demonstration that the constraint on outcomes was resources and stability, not ability.