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Submit Clear # News Filter by Month: --ALl-- Janaury February March April May June July August September October November December This is a search field with an auto-suggest feature attached. - There are no suggestions because the search field is empty. ### Recent Posts - [Adapt IT partners with Dext to bring leading bookkeeping automation to the Africa](https://www.adaptit.com/news/adapt-it-partners-with-dext-to-bring-leading-bookkeeping-automation-to-the-africa) - [Adapt IT expands hospitality role with Spa Guru](https://www.adaptit.com/news/adapt-it-expands-hospitality-role-with-spa-guru) - [Canada’s Volaris taps Adapt IT executives in leadership reshuffle](https://www.adaptit.com/news/canadas-volaris-taps-adapt-it-executives-in-leadership-reshuffle) - [Adapt IT appoints new CEO](https://www.adaptit.com/news/adapt-it-appoints-new-ceo) - [Adopt-A-School Foundation Celebrates Its National Matric Top Achiever From a Rural Limpopo School](https://www.adaptit.com/news/adopt-a-school-foundation-celebrates-its-national-matric-top-achiever-from-a-rural-limpopo-school) - [And the winner is… Announcing the Moodle Certified Partner Awards 2024](https://www.adaptit.com/news/announcing-the-moodle-certified-partner-awards-2024) - [ADAPT IT: Specialised Solutions Help Clients Achieve More](https://www.adaptit.com/news/adapt-it-specialised-solutions-help-clients-achieve-more) - [Adapt IT seeks software business targets in Europe, Africa – CEO](https://www.adaptit.com/news/adapt-it-seeks-software-business-targets-in-europe-africa-ceo) - [South Africa’s favourite IT service providers](https://www.adaptit.com/news/south-africas-favourite-it-service-providers) - [Raspberry Pi 400 handover at Lodirile Secondary School](https://www.adaptit.com/news/raspberry-pi-400-handover-at-lodirile-secondary-school) ## Mudiwa Gavaza ### Recent Posts Mar 10 2025 ### [Adapt IT expands hospitality role with Spa Guru](https://www.adaptit.com/news/adapt-it-expands-hospitality-role-with-spa-guru) by Mudiwa Gavaza Omegro, a portfolio within Volaris Group that includes Adapt IT, acquires SA-based hospitality software company...[Read More](https://www.adaptit.com/news/adapt-it-expands-hospitality-role-with-spa-guru) Feb 05 2025 ### [Canada’s Volaris taps Adapt IT executives in leadership reshuffle](https://www.adaptit.com/news/canadas-volaris-taps-adapt-it-executives-in-leadership-reshuffle) by Mudiwa Gavaza Three years after Volaris took over Adapt IT’s business in a transaction that valued the SA company at more than R1bn, its Canadian parent has made use of a number of the SA company’s leaders to drive its acquisition strategy in the Middle East and Africa.For more than a decade Adapt IT was one of the JSE’s few listed software companies, dropping off the bourse after the takeover in January 2022.Volaris, which specialises in acquiring software businesses, has operations in more than 35 countries and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Canada-listed Constellation, a $102bn (R1.9-trillion) technology giant.The Canadian group won a bidding war against local player Huge Group, walking away with about 64% of Adapt IT.The acquisition resulted in a diversified SA software company being backed by a well-capitalised leading global technology firm that is keen to support further growth.Adapt IT, now part of the Canadian firm’s Omegro portfolio, represents Volaris’s interests in Africa where it sees...[Read More](https://www.adaptit.com/news/canadas-volaris-taps-adapt-it-executives-in-leadership-reshuffle) Aug 30 2022 ### [Adapt IT poised for more acquisitions](https://www.adaptit.com/news/adapt-it-poised-for-more-acquisitions) by Mudiwa Gavaza The technology group says it is ready to get back to its strategy of growing its operations through acquisition Nearly a year after a takeover that led to its delisting from the JSE, technology group Adapt IT says it is ready to get back to its strategy of growing its operations through acquisition. Earlier in August, the company acquired a Mauritian-based software business that serves the hospitality sector. .. Source: BusinessDay...[Read More](https://www.adaptit.com/news/adapt-it-poised-for-more-acquisitions) Jan 21 2022 ### [Q&A: Acquisitive Volaris pushes software investment in SA](https://www.adaptit.com/news/qa-acquisitive-volaris-pushes-software-investment-in-sa) by Mudiwa Gavaza Mike Dufton explains Volaris’s investment philosophy, Adapt IT’s place in the portfolio and its plans for tech investment in Africa...[Read More](https://www.adaptit.com/news/qa-acquisitive-volaris-pushes-software-investment-in-sa) Aug 02 2021 ### [Huge Group takes up disappointing 2% of Adapt IT](https://www.adaptit.com/news/huge-group-takes-up-disappointing-2-percent-of-adapt-it) by Mudiwa Gavaza End of share-swap leaves 29% of Adapt IT investors still on the fence over Volaris offer...[Read More](https://www.adaptit.com/news/huge-group-takes-up-disappointing-2-percent-of-adapt-it) Apr 21 2021 ### [Adapt IT tells shareholders not to feel pressured over buyout decisions](https://www.adaptit.com/news/adapt-it-tells-shareholders-not-to-feel-pressured-over-buyout-decisions) by Mudiwa Gavaza The Huge Group is setting a premature deadline regarding its offer, company says Adapt IT has warned shareholders not to be pressured into making a decision regarding an unsolicited buyout offer by technology company Huge Group. Earlier this year, Huge made an R800m takeover bid for its peer Adapt IT, which provides software solutions to the education, manufacturing, energy, financial services, communications and hospitality sectors. Adapt IT is also reviewing an offer from Canadian-based Volaris. On Wednesday, Adapt IT, headed by CEO Sbu Shabalala, said it has received information that some of its shareholders are being coerced to make a decision about the Huge offer by April 22. However, shareholders have until July 23 to do so. “It has come to the company’s attention that certain central securities depository participants are requesting Adapt IT shareholders \[to\] respond to the Huge offer by \[Friday\], April 22 2021, which is not the deadline for the offer,” said Adapt IT. “Adapt...[Read More](https://www.adaptit.com/news/adapt-it-tells-shareholders-not-to-feel-pressured-over-buyout-decisions) - 1 - [2](https://www.adaptit.com/news/author/mudiwa-gavaza/page/2) - © 2025 Adapt IT Holdings Proprietary Limited. 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