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 · 29 January 1987 English
Prognoses for participants in the forthcoming election; the position occupied by Wynand Malan.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 28 January 1987 English
Article (No. 17) regarding the [White] election called by President P.W. Botha and predictions about the content of his forthcoming speech at the annual opening of Parliament.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 28 January 1987 English
Mood piece on Maputo/Mozambique
SU: Stellenbosch University · 28 November 1986 English
Rejects the government propaganda around the 1987 white election; claims that the timing of the election will allow P.W. Botha to retire with his biggest election mandate ever; criticizes the …
SU: Stellenbosch University · 13 November 1986 English
IDASA (Institute for a Democratic Alternative for South Africa).
SU: Stellenbosch University · 7 November 1986 English
'Article (No. 14) about the feeling of optimism about South Africa’s future experienced by FVZS and others at a recent conference on South Africa in Bonn, West Germany. With inscription: …
SU: Stellenbosch University · 1 November 1986 English
Lead sentence: “The tragedy of South Africa lies in the continued denial of its potential. It is a magnificent country whose future remains frustrated by its past”.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 17 October 1986 English
Sanctions and counter-sanctions will force the South African government to fall back more and more on domestic repression and regional destabilization of its frontline states (Lesotho, Mozambique and Zimbabwe); normal …
SU: Stellenbosch University · 17 October 1986 English
Article (No. 13), written after a visit to Zimbabwe; compares it to a visit in 1962 as part of a rugby tour; [Robert] Mugabe’s role in the transition from Rhodesia …
SU: Stellenbosch University · 12 September 1986 English
The constitutional paradox in South Africa; the manner in which the Minister of Constitutional Development, Mr Chris Heunis, had chosen to resolve this paradox, has effectively brought Parliament to a …