Ex-Oprah School Leader Sues for Defamation

The former headmaster of Oprah Winfrey's South African Leadership Academy for Girls, filed a defamation lawsuit against the TV star in Philadelphia court Friday, according to People magazine.

Nomvuyo Mzamane claims she had nothing to do with the allegations that are still unfolding in criminal court in South Africa. Mzamane says she suffers from "depression, anxiety and insomnia," and her professional reputation has been ruined as a result of the allegations.

Court documents in the civil suit say Winfrey "launched what amounted to a defamatory campaign" against Mzamane late last year by implying in comments to the media that Mzamane is "untrustworthy, failed the students of the academy, did not care about the students at the academy, knew of alleged physical and sexual abuse at the academy and participated in a cover-up of the alleged abuse."
Mzamane, 39, also filed a defamation suit against the blog the Huffington Post.

Mzamane has said there was no cover-up at the school and she knew nothing about the allegations.

Since her termination, Mzamane has not been able to find comparable work and suffers from "depression, anxiety and insomnia," the suit states. She is asking for $50,000 for each of five different claims, according to People.

The trial for Tiny Virginia Makopo will continue Oct. 22 in South Africa for The 28-year-old woman is accused of indecently assaulting and abusing six teenagers at Oprah Winfrey's school for poor South African girls.


Ex-Oprah School Leader Sues for Defamation - Black Voices Blogs

The whole thing is TOTALLY HILARIOUS!!!

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WASHINGTON -- Oprah Winfrey's unveiling of a luxurious $40 million boarding school for 152 girls in South Africa earlier this month, coming in the midst of burgeoning interest in Africa's orphans from churches, philanthropists, and celebrities, has sparked frustration among African charities over the failure of some donors to spread their money more widely to achieve a greater impact.

Outside Oprah's school, a growing frustration - The Boston Globe

Oprah could have bought 200,000 OLPC XO computers for that much.

YouTube - one laptop per child XO prototype at siggraph 2007

So she could have set aside $5,000,000 to create a research team to start selecting and developing educational software and used $1,000,000 to get 5,000 laptops to start a pilot program. So as she got more and better software spend more to put out more laptops.

It would take 10 years for that silly school to produce 1500 graduates. And now she has all these problems. Status seeking nonsense trying to impress everyone instead of being effective.

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