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Cape Town - Oprah Winfrey is set to return to South Africa in September to try her hand at being a high school teacher at her academy.
The talk show host, whose penultimate episode of her long-running The Oprah Winfrey Show will air on Thursday at 19:30 on SABC3, is set to return to South Africa shortly to become a high school teacher at her very own private girls' school, The Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls.
She will be teaching the class Life 101 before her first matric class go off to study at ivy-league American tertiary institutions next year.
Winfrey was in the country at the end of June to receive an honourary education degree from the University of the Free State in Bloemfontein.
She wrote an email to fans revealing that she will be back in South Africa again shortly – "fall" in the US which translates to the start of spring in South Africa. She will be teaching a class at her high school called Life 101 to instill in "her girls" all the life lessons she wished someone had passed on to her as a young girl.
Love to teach
"Should be fun since I love to teach," wrote Winfrey. "And they're like sponges. Like 12th graders everywhere, this first class is both anxious and excited about going to college. Most will be the first in their family. So it's a very big deal for them, and they're feeling the pressure."
"When Chris Rock was last on the show he said, 'real wealth is having options'. I thought that was pretty profound. I now stress to my girls that education prepares you to have options. Without it you have none."
Talking about "her girls" (she will be paying for them to attend top notch American tertiary institutions that they visited on a study trip at the end of last year) Winfrey says: "They were all stressed for tests, but doing fine. No major crisis this trip. I love being with them and talking to them about all things important. When I'm there I'm talking from the time I get up till I go to bed, about everything teenage girls are going through. It's the same all over the world."
Viewership tsunami
Meanwhile the three-part Oprah Winfrey Show finale that SABC3 moved into primetime is set for a viewership record, with the first of the three episodes that was broadcast on June 30 almost doubling the viewership of the timeslot.
The episode created a viewership tsunami for the channel in the tough 19:30 Thursday timeslot and pulled an incredibly impressive 4.9 AR and 13.7% share, translating to 1.365 million viewers. The viewership in the timeslot jumped from 2.6 AR and a 6.6% share the previous Thursday, meaning that the total number of TV sets in South Africa tuned to SABC3 more than doubled in the timeslot.
The talk show host, whose penultimate episode of her long-running The Oprah Winfrey Show will air on Thursday at 19:30 on SABC3, is set to return to South Africa shortly to become a high school teacher at her very own private girls' school, The Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls.
She will be teaching the class Life 101 before her first matric class go off to study at ivy-league American tertiary institutions next year.
Winfrey was in the country at the end of June to receive an honourary education degree from the University of the Free State in Bloemfontein.
She wrote an email to fans revealing that she will be back in South Africa again shortly – "fall" in the US which translates to the start of spring in South Africa. She will be teaching a class at her high school called Life 101 to instill in "her girls" all the life lessons she wished someone had passed on to her as a young girl.
Love to teach
"Should be fun since I love to teach," wrote Winfrey. "And they're like sponges. Like 12th graders everywhere, this first class is both anxious and excited about going to college. Most will be the first in their family. So it's a very big deal for them, and they're feeling the pressure."
"When Chris Rock was last on the show he said, 'real wealth is having options'. I thought that was pretty profound. I now stress to my girls that education prepares you to have options. Without it you have none."
Talking about "her girls" (she will be paying for them to attend top notch American tertiary institutions that they visited on a study trip at the end of last year) Winfrey says: "They were all stressed for tests, but doing fine. No major crisis this trip. I love being with them and talking to them about all things important. When I'm there I'm talking from the time I get up till I go to bed, about everything teenage girls are going through. It's the same all over the world."
Viewership tsunami
Meanwhile the three-part Oprah Winfrey Show finale that SABC3 moved into primetime is set for a viewership record, with the first of the three episodes that was broadcast on June 30 almost doubling the viewership of the timeslot.
The episode created a viewership tsunami for the channel in the tough 19:30 Thursday timeslot and pulled an incredibly impressive 4.9 AR and 13.7% share, translating to 1.365 million viewers. The viewership in the timeslot jumped from 2.6 AR and a 6.6% share the previous Thursday, meaning that the total number of TV sets in South Africa tuned to SABC3 more than doubled in the timeslot.
