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 · 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; …
SU: Stellenbosch University · 17 October 1991 English
Speech delivered as part of the second Andrew Savage Memorial Lecture, in the Walmer Town Hall, Port Elizabeth.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 1 October 1991 Afrikaans
Describes a visit during a “Mining Summit” to a gold mine where workers across the political spectrum work together.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 1 October 1991 English
Transitional terminological tribulations.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 1 September 1991 English
Article about the dynamics of the transition in South Africa.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 26 August 1991 Afrikaans
Describes a visit to the coloured informal settlement Heavenly Valley, and others, near Soweto; the [Johannesburg] Metropolitan Chamber [of Commerce and Industry].
SU: Stellenbosch University · 18 August 1991 English
Summary/list of overhead slides for a presentation at an ANC/Business Summit.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 23 July 1991 English
Speech given at the Monsanto Company, a multinational and agricultural biotechnology corporation in St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 18 June 1991 Afrikaans
Irritated by doom prophets advising South Africans to leave the country when the ANC take over the government; criticises Ken Owen and Alan Paton for their pronouncements in this regard.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 1 June 1991 Afrikaans
'Published: Cape Town: Human & Rousseau, 1991. Book review.'