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 February 1988 English
Overview of the state of the nation at the current time; the pre-negotiation phase of politics; criticizes the government’s efforts to popularize the benefits of reform above the disadvantages of …
SU: Stellenbosch University · 28 January 1988 Afrikaans
Speech given in Pretoria at a General Meeting of the N.D.B. [Nuwe Demokratiese Beweging = New Democratic Movement]. Accompanied by two letters between Franklin A. Sonn and Dr. F. van …
SU: Stellenbosch University · 28 January 1988 Afrikaans
Speech given in Pretoria at a General Meeting of the N.D.B. [Nuwe Demokratiese Beweging = New Democratic Movement]. Accompanied by two letters between Franklin A. Sonn and Dr. F. van …
SU: Stellenbosch University · 28 January 1988 Afrikaans
Speech given in Pretoria at a General Meeting of the N.D.B. [Nuwe Demokratiese Beweging = New Democratic Movement]. Accompanied by two letters between Franklin A. Sonn and Dr. F. van …
SU: Stellenbosch University · 12 January 1988 English
Criticism of Ken Owen and Jos Gerson’s articles in Optima (December 1987) about the present and future contribution of liberalism to the evolving conflict in South Africa; Afrikaners; incremental change.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 1 December 1987 English
Article about the characteristics of the Afrikaner.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 2 November 1987 English
Published in: Inside South Africa, Vol. 1, no. 12, p. 19, as component in the article “Making the horse talk: Leading South African politicians state their priorities for 1988”, by …
SU: Stellenbosch University · 1 November 1987 English
Variant of Tanner Lecture 3. Oxford, November 1987.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 1 November 1987 English
Lecture 3. The dynamics of reform & revolt in current South Africa. A three part talk as Tanner Lecturer, Brasenose College, October/November 1987. Published as: IDASA occasional paper: 9. Mowbray: …
SU: Stellenbosch University · 27 October 1987 English
Printed poster on talk as L.S.E. Suntory-Toyota Lecturer.