Lindiwe Tsope has grow to be the primary graduate of Oprah Winfrey’s Management Academy for Women in South Africa to be awarded a PhD.
Tsope was a part of the primary class to be inducted at Oprah Winfrey’s college in 2007 when it opened within the city of Meyerton, close to Johannesburg in South Africa.
Tsope graduated in 2012 after which enrolled at South Africa’s Rhodes College in 2013, the place she accomplished her undergraduate and masters levels, alongside together with her PhD in sociology.
Tsope thanked OWLAG and Winfrey, calling the discuss present host and philanthropist the “driver” of her goals, in an interview launched by Rhodes College on Monday.
“I cried for an hour once I acquired that final e-mail that confirmed I had accomplished my qualification,” Tsope stated, saying that it was the “biggest factor” she had finished for herself.
Throughout her course she lectured a category for undergraduates and initially fearful about how she was “going to be acquired, particularly as a younger black feminine.”
Nonetheless, Tsope stated that she felt her life had come “full circle,” lecturing the category by which she was as soon as a pupil.
OWLAG is the one college Winfrey has arrange however previous to launching the academy, she was already donating to a scholarship program at Morehouse School, in Atlanta, Georgia. She established the Oprah Winfrey Scholar Program on the males’s liberal arts faculty in 1989, which has funded the schooling of over 700 college students, sending over 300 to South Africa to “have interaction in service and management experiences.”
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