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HENLEY-ON-KLIP — US talk show prima donna Oprah Winfrey cried Saturday as the first graduates of her South African girls' academy thanked her for her work to turn a handful of impoverished girls into elite leaders.

With the 72 graduates sitting behind her in white dresses, Winfrey, who rose to stardom and an estimated affluence of $2.7 billion from a deprived childhood in Mississippi, spoke of why she unfaltering to open the school with a $40 million investment in 2007.

"I know that learning is the door to freedom," Oprah, clad in an emerald green accoutre, said at the graduation ceremony.

"So I want to do that for girls who come from backgrounds like my own, who have disadvantaged circumstances but no disadvantaged attitudes or brainpower or will-power. I want to give them the chance that I was given."

Winfrey, 58, told the confabulation of how she mentioned to Nelson Mandela over tea at his house one day that she was interested in building a girls' shape in South Africa.

Source: AFP

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