ABSTRACT
This chapter summarises the impact apartheid and the post-apartheid state of being have had on South Africa’s (SA) higher education (HE) system. It discusses the benchmarks established by the Republic of SA that have and presently serve to guide the process of transformation in HE and training institutions in post-apartheid SA. Under the apartheid laws, non-White South Africans were treated reprehensibly according to their racial background. The policy framework was developed in 2016 in an effort to understand social inclusion in the Post-School Education and Training (PSET) system and to ensure the implementation of social inclusion in all forms of PSET institutions. The framework situates the PSET system within the universal human rights discourse, which recognizes social inclusion as a concept which embraces the entire humanity and cuts across all the factors that divide human beings.
