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Oprah Winfrey Celebrates Her "Daughter-Girls" Graduations

Congratulations all around!
Oprah Winfrey Celebrates Her "Daughter-Girls" Graduations
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By Sydney Scott · Updated October 27, 2020
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Oprah Winfrey has a lot to celebrate.

The talk show host was busy this weekend attending the commencement ceremonies of her “daughter-girls,” alumnae of the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls in South Africa and the first group of college grads from the school. 

Oprah Winfrey’s Wish for Her ‘Daughters’

 

On Sunday the media mogul shared a pic of three young women captioned, “Proud Happy Day!” Winfrey flew to Massachusetts to celebrate Tabitha Ramotwala’s graduation from Mount Holyoke, then made the trip to North Carolina the same day to celebrate Noluthando “Thando” Dlomo and Nompumelelo “Mpumi” Nobiva’s graduation from Johnson C. Smith University.  

Proud Happy Day! 2 graduations done. Tabitha at Mt.Hollyoke. Mpumi and Thando at JCSU. Congratulations to my beautiful and brilliant "daughter-girls". Now onto Spelman!

A photo posted by Oprah (@oprah) on May 15, 2016 at 10:54am PDT

Winfrey isn’t done either, Spelman’s next on her list. 

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