It wasn't just CNBC Africa (DStv 410) - South Africa's TV reporter Robyn Curnow of CNN International (DStv 401) also scored a big sit-down TV interview with Oprah Winfrey which will be shown on Robyn Curnow's show Marketplace Africa tonight at 21:45 (South African time).
So much for the blatantly lying CNBC Africa which billed its South African sit-down TV interview with Oprah Winfrey on Tuesday as an ''exclusive''. It clearly wasn't.
Robyn Curnow's interview for Marketplace Africa also took the form of a sit-down interview in one of the classrooms at the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls near Henley-on-Klip where the talk show titan visited this past weekend for the special graduation ceremony on Saturday of the first class of 72 girls who were the first to matriculate from her private girls' school.
''She was very generous with her time, delivered immaculate sound bites, offered up snippets of her own tragedies, created an intimacy with our crew in that small classroom and was, basically, a consummate performer,'' says Robyn Curnow, hinting about what viewers will be able to see in tonight's Marketplace Africa interview.
Robyn Curnow also fearlessly went there and asked Oprah Winfrey about the girl who secretly gave birth last year at the school after concealing her pregnancy. The pregnant teen's baby died and was hidden in a school bag. Oprah Winfrey answers, expressing her disappointment in the student, saying the girl showed ''poor leadership'' and is now at a different school.
Robyn Curnow also asks, and Oprah Winfrey answers, about the molestation scandal at the private girls' school, saying she did everything imaginable from protecting the girls but never imagined the danger would come from inside the school and women she had hired.
Robyn Curnow also asks about Barack Obama, and although Oprah Winfrey initially didn't want to talk about the American president (HERE is what Oprah Winfrey said on Tuesday on CNBC Africa in answer to the same question) - she then suddenly changes her mind and does.
Oprah Winfrey's interview on Marketplace Africa is shown tonight at 21:45 on CNN International, with rebroadcasts Saturday at 05:45, 08:15, 18:15 and Sunday at 03:15 and 18:15.
