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 · 24 May 1991 English
The State President's Summit on violence and intimidation by Dr. F. van Zyl Slabbert on 24 May 1991.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 21 May 1991 English
The transition away from Apartheid and towards a democratic outcome can only be achieved by bargaining about the conditions that can make negotiations possible: a pact on violence, a national …
SU: Stellenbosch University · 18 May 1991 English
Published in The Economist, pp. 13-14.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 13 May 1991 English
Lecture given at WBS (Wits Business School, University of the Witwatersrand) Johannesburg.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 1 May 1991 English
Poses the question whether South Africa can rid itself of white minority domination as the central issue of political conflict.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 1 January 1991 English
Forecast of the positions the different political parties will take in 1991 in an attempt to engage each other in bargaining compromises, as well as the necessity for the Government …
SU: Stellenbosch University · 1991 English
Report by Roger Thurow, [The Wall Street Journal]: “South Africans revive Marx, even as some learn that he’s dead.”
SU: Stellenbosch University · 10 December 1990 English
Speech given at the 1990 graduation ceremony of the Wits Business School, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 1 December 1990 English
Lead sentence: “There are frequent flashes of irritation from various quarters involved in the dynamics of transition in South Africa”.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 30 October 1990 English
Keynote address, delivered at a conference, Nwanedi Resort, Republic of Venda, 1990.10.30 - 1990.11.01. Accompanied by letters: Had referred to FVZS in his opening address; conference was successful and attended …