Frederik van Zyl Slabbert Collection
Stellenbosch University
Frederik Van Zyl Slabbert: scholar, politician, progressive thinker, businessman. Van Zyl Slabbert had a significant connection with Stellenbosch University throughout his life starting from his days as a student in Wilgenhof Residence in the early 1960’s. He completed his Bachelor of Arts here, as well as his Honours in Sociology. He completed his Masters in Sociology under the supervision of Prof Dian Joubert in 1964 and later, in 1967, his PhD under Prof SP Cilliers. He also lectured in the Department of Sociology. He then held various academic teaching positions in South Africa before his political career was initiated and he famously became the youngest leader of the official opposition in our country’s history in 1979. Slabbert remained an accomplished scholar and author and published several books in his lifetime. In 1986 Slabbert resigned from Parliament and then focused his leadership on a number of significant events which would ultimately influence the history and future of our country, for example the founding of IDASA and leading the delegation of Afrikaners to Dakar in 1987. His connection with our institution, however, came full circle when he was appointed Chancellor of Stellenbosch University in 2008. This connection is of course also further perpetuated by the FVZS Institute for Student Leadership Development, launched in 2011
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SU: Stellenbosch University · 22 September 1992 English
Nelson Mandela’s leadership; the Government’s underestimation of the dynamics of transition; F.W. de Klerk’s political position; the importance of Mandela and De Klerk entering into negotiations.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 31 August 1992 Afrikaans
Published in: Die Suid-Afrikaan, no. 41, October/November 1992, p. 7.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 10 July 1992 Afrikaans
Published in: Die Suid-Afrikaan, no.40, August/September 1992, p. 4.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 22 May 1992 English
Volume 5 of Jan Smuts memorial lecture. South African Institute of International Affairs: Braamfontein, July 1992 and text of speech, with footnotes.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 22 May 1992 English
Volume 5 of Jan Smuts memorial lecture. South African Institute of International Affairs: Braamfontein, July 1992 and text of speech, with footnotes.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 13 May 1992 Afrikaans
Published in: Die Suid-Afrikaan, no. 39, June/July 1992, p. 7.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 1 February 1992 English
Re the uncertainty of imposing a time-frame on the duration, and the futility of predicting the outcome of the transition in South Africa.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 29 January 1992 English
Address to launch of CSIS [Center for Strategic and International Studies] African Studies Program’s 50-member Working Group on South Africa. February 1992.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 1992 English
IDASA ANNUAL REPORT 1992
SU: Stellenbosch University · 1 December 1991
The relationship between those who participate or not in negotiations; the relationship between negotiation and administration; the relationship between stability and consent; the relationship between civil society and political control; …