There are so many tough decisions in South Africa and so few people to make them.
Oprah Winfrey has managed to stop traffic and draw a crowd of hundreds when she visited a slum in Mumbai during her week-long visit to India.
Oprah Winfrey has come to South Africa as the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls yielded its first group of matriculants.
Free State University Vice-Chancellor challenges everyone to embrace change.
In the same week, our beloved leader failed to meet the US first lady, he also failed to make time for the Prime Time Lady, writes <b>Chris Roper</b>.
The queen of talk became the queen of tears as the University of the Free State handed over a PhD, dubbing her a South African — and a Kovsie!
Scores of eager Oprah Winfrey fans gathered to watch the much loved talk show host receive an honorary doctorate at the University of Free State.
A cultural phenomenon and kingmaker, Oprah Winfrey inspired her millions of fans to read more, buy her favourite things and seek their "aha moments".
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/ 21 February 2011
Meaningless stereotypes of the noble African have lead Oprah to her present crisis, says <b>Verashni Pillay</b>.
TV talk-show host Oprah Winfrey and several schoolgirls allegedly abused at her academy in South Africa are expected to testify at an upcoming trial.
Talk show host Oprah Winfrey is expected to defend herself in a defamation case linked to the sex-abuse scandal at her girls school in South Africa.
REALISTIC MOVIE OF THE WEEK: Peter Bradshaw reviews <em>Precious</em>which shifts between nightmarish and inspirationally upbeat.
Oprah Winfrey sat rapt on Friday in the state-of-the-art theatre during a show put on by the girls she has built an exclusive school for.
Oprah Winfrey acknowledged in a newspaper interview published on Saturday that she has made several mistakes at her elite South African school.
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/ 4 February 2009
All six alleged victims of sexual assault at the Oprah Winfrey Academy finished testifying in camera in the Sebokeng Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday.
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/ 21 January 2009
How many more Palestinians have to die before their suffering becomes a cause célèbre?
According to the diplomatic rumour mill in Pretoria, Obama is looking at Oprah Winfrey as the next United States ambassador to South Africa.
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/ 18 September 2008
Microsoft founder Bill Gates has recovered his spot at the top of the United States money heap, Forbes magazine’s latest list reveals.
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/ 7 September 2008
Oprah Winfrey, America’s favourite daytime TV star, has refused to have Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin as a guest on her talk show
We’ve all met unkind women and there is such a thing as a bad mother. The propaganda, however, wants us to believe differently.
Charlie Sheen is the highest-paid TV actor in the United States — but he looks like a pauper when compared with the highest earners of unscripted TV.
The travelling celebrity entourage is a thing of wonder and the United Kingdom’s Heather Mills has raised the bar yet further.
A former dormitory matron charged with abuse at US talk show host Oprah Winfrey’s girls academy in South Africa on Tuesday pleaded not guilty.
Veteran rockers Queen, along with Razorlight and Simple Minds, will top the bill at an Aids benefit concert in London next month to mark Nelson Mandela’s 90th birthday, organisers announced on Tuesday. Precisely 46 664 tickets will go on sale for the three-hour gig in Hyde Park on June 27, which is in support of the former South African president’s 46664 campaign against HIV/Aids.
The Sebokeng Magistrate’s Court on Friday postponed until July the trial of a former dormitory matron of United States talk-show host Oprah Winfrey’s girls academy, who has been charged with abusing minors. Virginia Makgobo (27)appeared court to face charges of indecent and common assault, and soliciting a minor to perform indecent acts.
A transgender man who is six months pregnant said in an interview aired by Oprah Winfrey on Thursday that he always wanted to have a child and considers it a miracle. ”It’s not a male or female desire to have a child. It’s a human desire,” a thinly bearded Thomas Beatie said.
The World Intellectual Property Organisation (Wipo) ousted a record number of cybersquatters from websites with domain names referring to trademarked companies, foundations and celebrities in 2007. Wipo, a United Nations agency based in Geneva, received 2 156 complaints alleging ”abusive registration of trademarks on the internet” last year.
United States actress Drew Barrymore donated -million of her own money on Monday to the World Food Programme (WFP) that the United Nations agency said would be used to feed thousands of schoolchildren in Kenya. Barrymore (33) a WFP ambassador against hunger, announced her pledge on the Oprah Winfrey Show.
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/ 4 February 2008
Exhausted White House hopefuls launched one last frenzied day of campaigning before the 24-state Super Tuesday — the biggest one-day White House nominating contest in history. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are fighting neck-and-neck in the Democratic showdown, while John McCain looked set to take a firm grip on the Republican contest.
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/ 16 January 2008
A court on Wednesday postponed the case of abuse against a former dormitory matron of United States talk-show host Oprah Winfrey’s girls academy. Virginia Mokgobo (27) appeared in the Sebokeng Magistrate’s Court to face charges of indecent and common assault, soliciting a minor to perform indecent acts and verbal abuse.
”They said this day would never come,” said United States Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama at the outset of his barnstorming victory speech on Thursday night. But as he arrived in New Hampshire early on Friday, Americans woke up to the historic possibility that the day when they might have a black president was closer than they thought.
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/ 23 December 2007
Bill Clinton has never been one to avoid the limelight. Or stay on message. Last week, as he spearheaded a mission to rejuvenate his wife’s troubled presidential campaign, he showed that old habits die hard. In a publicity stunt at a grocery store in the vital first battleground state of Iowa, the ex-president caused brief chaos by breaking away to chat to the public.