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 October 1987 English
Lecture 1. 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: 7. Mowbray: …
SU: Stellenbosch University · 1 October 1987 English
Lecture 2. 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: 8. Mowbray: …
SU: Stellenbosch University · 1 September 1987 English
Article for Optima regarding South Africa and negotiating in politics - myths and prospects.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 1 September 1987 English
Article regarding the negotiation of democracy in South Africa. Reworked version of article later published as “Can democracy be negotiated in SA?” in: F. van Zyl Slabbert; Dene Smuts. The …
SU: Stellenbosch University · 17 June 1987 English
Lead sentence: “Political language used by the ruling establishment in South Africa suffers from a bad dose of verbal inflation”.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 2 June 1987 English
'Published: Cape Town: Human & Rousseau, 1987. Book review.'
SU: Stellenbosch University · 26 May 1987 English
Lead sentence: “One of the legacies of almost 40 years of NP rule, has been the inflation of words beyond any recognised meaning. They lose their value in the difficult …
SU: Stellenbosch University · 25 May 1987 English
Article for Leadership Magazine published under the title, “Pricking the bubble”, in: Leadership South Africa, vol. 6, no. 3, 1987, pp. 22 - 23.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 2 April 1987 English
Article (No. 21) about the legality and legitimacy of the forthcoming election in South Africa.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 4 March 1987 English
Article (No. 19) criticizing the forthcoming “all white” election in South Africa, while juxtaposing it with similar conditions in Namibia where Dirk Mudge, leader of the Republican Party is promoting …