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 August 1986 English
Article (No. 11), about the crisis in black education due to the vast inequalities of quantity, quality and accessibility to facilities and resources between Black and White in South Africa.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 15 August 1986 English
The increased level and extent of politicization in South Africa over the last three years and the implications for the conducting and organisation of business in such a political climate.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 8 August 1986 English
Paper presented at Rhodes University Commerce Week in Grahamstown.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 18 July 1986 English
Contemplates the difference between thinking and talking and how futile the Government’s effort was to try and “normalize” things by declaring a State of Emergency; gives example of the cynical …
SU: Stellenbosch University · 22 June 1986 English
Speech delivered at the FOYSA (Four Outstanding Young South Africans) Awards. Includes letters regarding the following: Letter of invitation, on behalf of Jaycee South Africa, to speak at the FOYSA …
SU: Stellenbosch University · 22 June 1986 English
Speech delivered at the FOYSA (Four Outstanding Young South Africans) Awards. Includes letters regarding the following: Letter of invitation, on behalf of Jaycee South Africa, to speak at the FOYSA …
SU: Stellenbosch University · 22 June 1986 English
Speech delivered at the FOYSA (Four Outstanding Young South Africans) Awards. Includes letters regarding the following: Letter of invitation, on behalf of Jaycee South Africa, to speak at the FOYSA …
SU: Stellenbosch University · 22 June 1986 English
Speech delivered at the FOYSA (Four Outstanding Young South Africans) Awards. Includes letters regarding the following: Letter of invitation, on behalf of Jaycee South Africa, to speak at the FOYSA …
SU: Stellenbosch University · 20 June 1986 English
Writes about the threat to press freedom and individual liberty under the State of Emergency.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 20 June 1986 English
Article (No. 8), written for the Argus Group on insights gained about the political situation in South Africa during a six-week visit abroad.