It has 6 campuses in South Africa and is owned by Educor (the Education Investment Corporation Limited) group.

[8][7][10][2][3][4] Damelin offers degrees, diplomas and other higher qualifications, but is considered a college instead of a university due to the regulations for tertiary institutions in South Africa.

[3] In 1951, Johann Brummer joined Damelin as a teacher,[3] in 1952, becoming a partner and serving as Educor's Executive chairman until his resignation in 1998.

[3][4] By 1991, Damelin had started offering contact instruction to University of South Africa students, which had been established for middle-class African students who were unable to gain entry into universities of higher prestige with higher level education.

[18] In 2008, Educor was purchased by National Pride Trading 452 as a going concern[2] and started integrating the Damelin School of Banking and Insurance's academic operations as part of their offerings.

[21] From November 2013 as part of an initiative in the South African education sector called Project Athena, the South African telecommunication company Telkom has pledged to give over 40 000 SIM cards to Damelin students over the course of three months.

[25] This followed the loss of accreditation of some programmes and years of complaints from students who failed to receive requested "study materials, online access, assignment and exam results, certificates and refunds owed to them".

[22][23][24]Damelin has 6 campuses across South Africa in various cities, including but not limited to Johannesburg, Port Elizabeth, Pretoria, Cape Town, Durban.

Damelin's presence in Gauteng is central to its history and operation as one of the first campuses was founded there in the 1960s and their head office relocated to Braamfontein in 1992.

[35] On Wednesday 4 December 2013, the campus proudly received ISO 1900:2008 certification from the South African Bureau of Standards, marking a significant milestone for the entire Damelin education group.

[61] On 13 February 1997, then South African President Nelson Mandela delivered a speech at the Damelin business college in Johannesburg.

[66][67][68][69][70][71] In March 2013, hundreds of students from the Durban City campus took to the streets to express their support against rape and violence against women.

[72] On 9 September 2012, the investigative journalism program Carte Blanche aired a feature called "Arrested Development"[88] in which the legitimacy of Damelin's qualifications was questioned.