AFDA is a South African private Higher Education institution that offers higher certificates, undergraduate, and postgraduate degrees in film, television, performance, business innovation and technology, radio and podcasting, and creative writing.

[4] AFDA Botswana was established in 2015 at Oodi College Of Applied Arts And Technology (OCAAT), but has since closed.

[5] In 2017, AFDA was acquired by tertiary education company, Stadio Investments, a wholly owned subsidiary of JSE-listed Curro Holdings.

By then, the school had expanded to 2,000 full-time students, 3,500 alumni, five campuses (eventually scaled back to four), and nine fully accredited degrees.

AFDA is fully accredited by the Council on Higher Education (CHE), Department of Education (DoE) and the South African Qualifications Authority (SAQA), and is a full member of CILECT (The International Association of Film and Television Schools).