Oshana Gymnasium – a new addition to the Curro family!
11 August 2023Oshana Gymnasium will feature modern sports facilities and is slated to open its doors in January 2024, symbolises a sisterly connection to Curro's existing campuses such as Windhoek Gymnasium and Walvis Bay Gymnasium.
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Curro Durbanville's Architectural Brilliance Shortlisted for International Festival
21 July 2023Curro Durbanville’s new high school campus, situated in the Groot Phesantekraal Estate, has been shortlisted for the 2023 World Architecture Festival in the Completed Buildings - School category.
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Curro Salt Rock Wins Annual Best School Award
19 July 2023Curro Salt Rock’s preschool won this year’s Best of Ballito Readers’ Choice Awards for the second consecutive year, while their primary and high school phases placed second in their respective categories.
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Curro Holdings: Leadership change at the top
03 November 2022Curro’s CEO Andries Greyling has decided to go on retirement, effective 1 January 2023. He will resign as CEO and from the board and will be available to Curro until end June 2023 to facilitate the transition to the new CEO.
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Curro Bloemfontein genius stuns the country
18 October 2022Stiaan Scheepers, 13-year-old math genius from Curro Bloemfontein, showed off his brilliance by solving a Rubik’s Cube in just 30 seconds, while live on Jacaranda FM’s breakfast show.
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Curro Aurora learner gains USA exchange scholarship
11 August 2022Pooja Chunnilall from Curro Aurora was recently awarded an AFS Intercultural Program scholarship as part of an exchange programme.
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Fourteen-year-old learner takes HIV advocacy to Washington DC
23 June 2022Galaletsang Phalatse, a 14-year-old HIV advocate from Curro Aurora, is about to fly the South African flag high in Washington DC.
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Curro Century City celebrates 17-year-old published author
10 May 2022A Grade 12 learner from Curro Century City recently became a published author, with a launch party held early May.
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Preparing for the World Robot Olympiad
17 March 2022Recently, the South African arm of the World Robot Olympiad launched their competition for 2022. The theme for this year is ‘my robot, my friend’ and takes a closer look at human-robot interaction.
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Curro talks up growth in ‘more affordable alternative’ – its online school
25 February 2022Private education group Curro has reported a swing back into profit for the year ended December 2021, as its schools return to normal operations and continue to weather the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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SA’s next big star
22 February 2022What is success and what does it mean to succeed? It depends on who you ask. For Tiisetso Masike, Curro Bankenveld Class of 2017, to succeed is to live his best life … and that is what he is striving towards.
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Cafeteria, atrium, pause area. What to expect inside Curro’s new Durbanville High School Campus.
24 January 2022Curro Durbanville, the first school to open under the group in the late 1990s, recently opened its brand new contemporary high school campus.
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Curro unveils it's new mega high school campus
17 January 2022Curro, the leading independent school network in South Africa has recently unveiled its new “mega” high school campus in Cape Town.
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Curro Serengeti head girl accepted to three international universities
22 November 2021We are very proud to announce that our 2020/2021 Head Girl, Maluta Netshipale, has been provisionally accepted to study Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology at the University of Nottingham.
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Christian, The Golden Feather and The Fast Ball
15 November 2021In recent months, Heather Djunga, a parent at The King’s School Linbro Park, decided to write a story for her son and other children, to help them make sense of the COVID-19 pandemic - Christian and the Unexpected Masterpiece. Here is her second story.
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Miss Limpopo semi-finalist assists the disadvantaged
15 November 2021She said the provision of sanitary towels goes a long way in restoring the dignity of needy learners who, without the necessary support, are at risk of absenting themselves from school.
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Curro and Isizwe R5 Wi-Fi empowered a young entrepreneur to make her business dreams come true!
09 November 2021Curro has partnered with an incredible organisation called Isizwe R5 Wi-Fi. Their aim is to have a Wi-Fi hotspot available within walking distance of everyone in South Africa. Being connected brings endless opportunities for the user and allows for education to continue no matter where you are!
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Emergency services help learners learn the survival skills
08 November 2021Local emergency company Carewell Ambulances and Lenmed Zamokuhle Private Hospital teach children how to perform life-saving skills.
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Curro Aurora learner organises sanitary pad donation
08 November 2021Curro Aurora does its part to keep girls from missing school because of their period.
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Curro Roodeplaat support the 2021 Santa Shoe box drive
08 November 2021Generosity is all about a spiritual and emotional mindset. God loves a cheerful giver.
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Curro Heuwelkruin learner inspires tomorrows learners
01 November 2021Kwena Mokgohloa (17) is a semi-finalist for Miss Limpopo Province 2022.
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Curro Bankenveld learner crowned Miss Winter Angels 2021
01 November 2021Newly crowned Miss Winter Angels 2021 first princess is ready to make a change.
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Learner from Curro Midrand Halfway Gardens holds many beauty titles
01 November 2021Mini Miss Teen South Africa wants to use her title to increase volunteering awareness.
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Take a look at the progress of the new Curro Durbanville high school campus
25 October 2021On Friday, 22 October, our high school staff members were taken on a tour of our new campus. We explored all the new spaces and the exciting possibilities that come with them. The first day in the new campus truly cannot come fast enough.
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Curro Hermanus SRC of 2022
25 October 2021We would like to congratulate the new SRC of 2022. We have a special message from our head boy and head girl. We wish the team all the best for 2022 and we look forward to following your leadership.
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Curro Academy Savanna City donates food and clothing to Thato Kematla orphanage
25 October 2021It was great to witness and to be in the midst of all the amazing women who are looking after these babies, they have about 25 beautiful and healthy young children under their care. These women have filled a void and have become mothers to these kids, ensuring wellness and welfare to the lives of these young future leaders of tomorrow.
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Curro reminds parents that 'violent and inappropriate' 'Squid Game' is not for children under 16
25 October 2021Curro schools has sent out letters to parents reminding them that Netflix's hit series, Squid Game, carries an age restriction of 16.
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Why relationship-building skills will 'better prepare young people for the future'
25 October 2021Schools that embrace the development of relationship-building skills or, 'Relationship-centered' schools as they are called, will best prepare young people for future success, says Frank Rumboll, Executive Head at Curro Rivonia.
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Thandi the rhino inspired Curro Sitari for World Rhino Day
11 October 2021Thandi, the lone survivor of three rhinos targeted by poachers on the night of March 2, 2012 in Kariega Game Reserve, was our inspiration for World Rhino Day, which happened on September 22. We contacted Kariega and offered to assist by generating funds for their Save the Rhino Foundation. To raise funds, we held a raffle for our parents and learners, which involved selling tickets. The winner received a really cute rhino soft toy!
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Curro Delft teacher inspires a whole neighbourhood
11 October 2021Great excitement reigned at Curro Delft recently when the popular SABC TV show, Insider SA, spent some time at the school to film an insert on ‘a day in the life of’ Hopolang Lekhetha, one of the school’s mathematics teachers.
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Competition Tribunal approves Curro Holdings' acquisition of HeronBridge College
04 October 2021Curro Holdings, the JSE-listed independent education provider, is pleased to announce that the Competition Tribunal conditionally approved the group’s acquisition of HeronBridge College in Fourways, Johannesburg.
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Curro Academy Wilgeheuwel helps address period poverty at Willow Crescent Secondary School
04 October 2021While South Africa has made great strides in addressing issues of poverty, millions of girls continue to face the hardship of missing days’ worth of school while having their period but no finances to afford sanitary products. Happening monthly, this has a massive knock-on effect onto their learning throughout the year and could see them lose up to 60 days of school time.
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Curro Midrand Sagewood Matrics make meaningful memories
27 September 2021The COVID-19 pandemic has meant communities have had to find new and intentional ways of keeping connected in a time of social distancing. In 2020, to help Matrics around the country to create special memories despite a disrupted school year, Curro Holdings held a special live virtual concert. This year, the group has arranged a travelling yearbook project, encouraging Curro Matrics to capture their memories and connect to other Curro schools.
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Curro Heuwelkruin appoints new prefects
20 September 2021Meet the 2022 Curro Heuwelkruin prefects.
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Great leader joins Curro Jewel City
20 September 2021Curro Jewel City, an innovative, technology-driven school based in Johannesburg, recently appointed Tshegofatso Makhafola as their new School Leader.
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Curro Nelspruit matrics receive their travelling matric box
13 September 2021The COVID-19 pandemic has meant communities have had to find new and intentional ways of keeping connected in a time of social distancing. In 2020, to help Matrics around the country to create special memories despite a disrupted school year, Curro Holdings held a special live virtual concert.
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Waterstone College learners auditions for Afrikaans short film
30 August 2021Tiffany Wiesner in Grade 7 learner from Waterstone College went for an audition for an Afrikaans short film which they will shoot in December.
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Young learner from Curro Academy Pretoria publishes book and uses proceeds to support local children’s home
23 August 2021Published author Samhridhy Gohain is no ordinary writer – she is just 10 years old and is a learner at Curro Academy Pretoria. Her first book “3 Epic Adventures” is now available for purchase on Amazon or in hard copy on request. It is a collection of short stories, including “Jupiter The Space Frog”, “Adventures of Blisa The Kitten” and “Are Aliens Real?”
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Rikes Dry: Once you’re in the Curro family, you stay in the Curro family
10 August 2021‘You know what they say, once you are in the Curro family you stay in the Curro family.’ These words are certainly true for Rikes Dry, Curro Hazeldean alumnus, aspiring writer and current marketer of Curro Academy Sandown.
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Curro learners call on all South Africans to join the #HopeToHeal movement
06 August 2021Following the events of the past few weeks, 66 000 learners from the independent school group, Curro Holdings, have initiated a movement called #HopeToHeal. As we need to #RebuildSA, the movement is a collective message to South Africans to evoke the spirit of Mzansi and add their viral voice by sharing a message of hope to heal our nation.
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Construction of innovative new high school for Curro Durbanville in full swing
12 July 2021Curro Durbanville, a school managed by JSE-listed independent education provider Curro Holdings, is proud to announce that construction of its new contemporary high school campus is moving along swiftly. The new campus, set to open in January 2022, will showcase the very latest in educational space design and has been crafted using a learner-centric approach.
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New building and expanded primary school offering for local learners at Curro Academy The Blyde
12 July 2021Curro Academy The Blyde, situated in The Blyde Lifestyle Estate in Pretoria East, has recently moved to a brand new building. The school, managed by the JSE-listed independent school operator Curro Holdings, opened its doors in January 2020 to provide high-quality early childhood development education for children from the age of 3 years to Grade 3, with higher grades phasing in annually.
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Curro Academy Mahikeng cleaning up their community
12 July 2021Operation Clean-up at Curro Academy Mahikeng
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Windhoek Gymnasium learner Chiara Witt sweetens the lives of COVID-19 ICU nurses
12 July 2021#GimmieXfactor: Chiara Witt made 100 pancakes for the health workers at the Covid ICU ward at Central Hospital today
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Jacket ceremony for the matric Class of 2021 at Meridian Cosmo City
05 July 2021To acknowledge the Matric Class of 2021 for having worked hard to get the final grade of their Basic Education career. On 22 June 2021, the school hosted a jacket ceremony where the learners were given their Curro Matric Jacket and were also reminded of the hard work that is still required for them to attain the much anticipated 100% Matric pass rate – which is what the school has always been known to produce.
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Become a game developer – enrol today
28 June 2021Are you a gamer? Become a game developer and get your dream job! Join our Private Colleges in 2022..
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Curro Uitzicht Executive Head Hennie Mentz spoils his teachers on the last day of term
28 June 2021Today is the end of the school term and our staff all received a tasty surprise with a special room service delivery from our Executive Head.
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Watch: Our Executive Head wraps up the term at Curro Klerksdorp
28 June 2021An end of term vlog from our Executive Head, Mr Riaan Jansen van Rensburg. Wishing you all a wonderful, warm and safe holiday.
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Results of the recent AGM
28 June 2021Curro's AGM was held yesterday, which is the corporate equivalent of a parent-teacher meeting. As is appropriate for such meetings, the company updated its report card and gave shareholders an update on the business.
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Teachers and learners brave cold weather for a beach clean-up
28 June 2021Curro Durbanville learners and teachers braved the cold weather on Youth Day to go to our first beach clean-up as part of our outreach program.
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Grades 6 and 7 Minecraft learners visit software company.
21 June 2021Some of our Grade 6 and 7 Minecraft learners visited Haefele Software and were introduced to the world of software, giving them a small dose of a cross-section of the technology professions that await many of them in the years to come.
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Curro Durbanville learners and staff reach out to animal shelter
14 June 2021As part of Curro Durbanville’s outreach programme, learners and teachers went to Lucky Lucy Foundation to assist in their weekend volunteer programme on Saturday, 29 May. We braved the cold weather and spent the morning walking the dogs and cuddling the cats in the cattery.
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Micia Smit crowned as Miss Jnr Africa 2021
14 June 2021This past weekend Micia Smit (Grade 12) competed in Pretoria in two prestigious pageants hosted by PageantsSA.
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Curro matriculants make meaningful memories
14 June 2021St Dominics Newcastle Matrics make meaningful memories with the Travelling Yearbook project from Curro Holdings.
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Curro Academy Soshanguve learner a finalist for Miss Teen United Nations
07 June 2021We would like to congratulate Bonolo Lelaka, 16, doing grade 11 this year, she has been chosen out of 2500 entries nationwide, as a finalist in the Miss Teen United Nations South Africa.
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Curro Kathu |supports Groen Kathu initiative
24 May 2021Die skoonmaakaksie was ‘n reusesukses die afgelope naweek. Oud en jonk het weereens uitgestaan. Groen kathu wil spesiaal al die skoolkinders wat Saterdag gehelp het bedank.
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Get a supercharged dose of hope
17 May 2021By now, we are all very familiar with a virus that has turned the world upside down. 🌍 Judy Klipin, master coach, facilitator and trainer from Johannesburg, points out: ‘We are in transition from horror to hope.’
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Around the world on a catamaran
19 April 2021Sailing around the world on a catamaran is certainly a dream many of us have, but few get to experience. For Dantelle Joubert, this dream came true after graduating from Curro Durbanville in 2018. She has crossed two oceans, survived a pirate attack and swam with sharks, but she is certainly not done travelling and even plans on making a career of trying to save the planet!
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In conversation with Curro’s Jay Paul
19 April 2021Jay Paul is the online business manager at the largest independent school network in South Africa, Curro, having taken up the role some four years ago, and with a mandate to make education more accessible to learners online.
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Woodhill College learner obtains private pilot’s license at only 17
12 April 2021Well done Jason, you can be super proud of this achievement.
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More info on what you can expect at our new high school campus at Curro Durbanville
12 April 2021Curro Durbanville, a school managed by JSE-listed independent education provider, Curro Holdings, has announced that it will be expanding, resulting in a brand new, contemporary campus for the high school. The new campus will showcase the very latest in education space design, which has been crafted with a learner-centric approach.
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We have our own on-site radio station at Curro Helderwyk
05 April 2021Curro Helderwyk launches on-site learner-managed radio station. All production, presenter, DJ and radio operational roles are assumed by Curro Helderwyk’s own learner talent.
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Jill of all traits – master of all
29 March 2021Choosing to practise law is already no small task; doing so while working as a freelance artist and also studying towards a master’s degree almost sounds impossible. But this is exactly what Aniel Opperman, a former Curro Hazeldean learner, is pulling off!
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Grade R imitate the Easter Bunny at Curro Westbrook
29 March 2021Curro Westbrook's Grade R Easter Bunnies
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Curro Mossel Bay learners make local municipality youth council
29 March 2021The newly elected Junior Town Council of Mossel Bay on 23 March gathered in the Mossel Bay Council Chambers to participate in the first meeting of their term.
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New high-school campus for Curro Durbanville taking shape
22 March 2021This morning, our Grade 12 EGD Wolf Pack and three of our 2022 Grade 8's visited the site of the new Curro Durbanville High School for an exclusive site tour.
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Gentlemen in the making
22 March 2021The Gentleman's Society aims to equip young men with the skills needed to conduct themselves appropriately in a myriad of situations.
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Cooper College learner transcends academics to the business world
15 March 2021Ameera Sulaiman from Cooper College presented a company with a business proposal. She was complimented on the professional way in which the information was presented and the school stated: “The presentation exceeded our expectation.”
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Curro Serengeti's Dr Lalla shares words of encouragement
15 March 2021Dr Sharitha Lalla, executive head at Curro Serengeti, shared words of encouragement with the Class of 2021 and congratulated last year’s matric learners on their achievements.
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Curro Westbrook's Castle and primary school open day on 13 March
08 March 2021Curro Westbrook comprises a nursery school, primary school and additional classrooms to accommodate high school learners
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Care packages donated to medical staff at Mediclinic Vereeniging
08 March 2021Today we delivered all the care packages received from learners, parents and staff members.
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Curro Hillcrest learners raise funds for the Frontline Friends Foundation
01 March 2021Curro HCA, through its civvies day, was able to raise more than R5 000 for the Frontline Friends Foundation.
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Two schools included on local KwaZulu-Natal list of top schools
15 February 2021"Thanks to highly functional boarding establishments and technology, young people are now enjoying being educated in some of KwaZulu-Natal's premium education facilities—opening up bigger and brighter futures for them."
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Curro Krugersdorp's head boy: ‘Make every second count.’
15 February 2021Meet Curro Krugersdorp Independent School’s Head Boy: Khaya Blaai
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Curro Krugersdorp' s head girl hopes to instill tradition
15 February 2021Meet Curro Krugersdorp Independent School’s Head Girl: Aliyah Limbada
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Curro Waterfall welcomes our new executive head, Mark Heidmann
01 February 2021Independent school operator, Curro Holdings, has recently appointed Mark Heidmann as the new executive head of Curro Waterfall, situated in Midrand, Johannesburg.
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Curro Hermanus learner uses pocket money to give back
25 January 2021So very proud of Arran Muller in Grade 5 who decided to take her savings money and buy food, treats, toys and collars for the animal shelter in Kleinmond.
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Meet the stars of our first-ever TV ad
25 January 2021Five Pretoria learners appear in Curro Holdings’ first official TV commercial.
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Curro Century City alumnus to study at University of Toronto
18 January 2021Curro student to study in Canada
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View the Matric 2020 digimag here
11 January 2021Thank you to our learners and their parents/guardians for walking side by side with Curro through 2020. We have been humbled and overawed by your loyalty, impressive achievements and the way everyone came together to adapt to the changes, foist upon us in March, in a spirit of patience and tolerance.
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Micia wins Teen Miss Western Province 2020
26 October 2020She loved every minute of being back on the runway after most of this year’s beauty pageants where either postponed or cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Curro Aurora learner’s music now on major streaming platforms
08 September 2020The first time she was recognised for her singing talent was in 2016 when she won the vocalist category in Kids with Talent SA. This led to her first recording of a cover and her first music video as well.
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