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Curro Holdings has walked away from an attempt to acquire rival Advtech, Curro said on Wednesday, sending Advtech’s share price down by more than 3%. It said the offer it made to buy Advtech at R13/share no longer made sense in the face of stiff

Private education group Advtech has nailed its colours to the mast, saying it is business as usual after it rejected a takeover proposal from PSG-controlled rival Curro Holdings. With a more than usual turnout at the Advtech’s annual general meeting

The group that is least likely to scupper the possible acquisition of Advtech by its fast growing competitor Curro is the Competition Commission. Combined, the two companies are far smaller in the private schools arena than one might think. In 2013

Microsoft South Africa MD Mteto Nyati and former Google sub-Saharan Africa boss Stafford Masie have been appointed to the board of JSE-listed education and recruitment company AdvTech. Nyati, who previously worked at IBM South Africa, and Masie, who is spearheading