After South Africa’s re-entry into the international community with the advent of
democracy in 1994, higher education institutions were increasingly approached by
universities in other countries to engage in different ways with the international higher
education community. Up until the development of the Policy Framework for the
Internationalisation of Higher Education in South Africa (2017) this engagement has
taken place in the absence of an official South African national policy on the
internationalisation of higher education. There are, however, various official national
documents and statements that set the basis for approach to internationalisation of
higher education in South Africa and also regional documents and reports released by
government.