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 · 1990 English
Daantjie Oosthuizen Memorial Lecture. Text of speech, with footnotes.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 1 January 1989 English
Article regarding the struggle for a non-racial democratic South Africa. Version of article published as “The conflict deepens: Strategic Dilemmas”, in: The system and the struggle: reform, revolt and reaction …
SU: Stellenbosch University · 1 January 1989 English
Article for Indicator South Africa about the struggle for a non-racial democratic South Africa: ‘Time out’ for stock-taking.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 1 August 1988 English
Title: “The University of Stellenbosch.”
SU: Stellenbosch University · 27 June 1988 English
Published under the title “Rituals and realities”, in: Leadership South Africa, vol. 7, no. 3, 1988, pp. 19 - 22.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 1 June 1988 English
Poster of lecture at the Robson Square Media Centre Theatre, Simon Fraser University. Vancouver, Canada.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 1 May 1988 English
Generally stated, “Opposition politics [in South Africa] is being shaped by the dynamics of right-wing reaction and left-wing revolt and either is a consequence of the dynamics of reform initiated …
SU: Stellenbosch University · 1 April 1988 Afrikaans
[Toespraak] bedoel as bydrae tot besinning aan die Wes-Kaapse Universiteit, by geleentheid van die ontvangs van ’n eredoktorsgraad. [Speech intended for the award of an unspecified honorary doctorate at the …
SU: Stellenbosch University · 17 March 1988 English
Questionnaire from Varsity, the University of Cape Town newspaper.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 9 March 1988 English
Speech delivered by Dr F. van Zyl Slabbert at NDM [National Democratic Movement] meeting held in Cape Town.