The shares of the diversified industrial group Barloworld were the best performing in December after a multibillion-rand bid to take the company private by a consortium led by the group’s CEO Dominic Sewela.

Shares in the industrial group were December’s best-performing stock, soaring 26.9% month on month after Sewela and Saudi Arabia’s Zahid Group announced an offer for all its shares at an 87% premium to the share price at the time. The offer values the group at R23bn...

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