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 · 5 June 1986 English
Found among End Conscription Campaign documents [430.F6]. Handwritten list by FVZS on verso of page 823 with names of Caucus members [Philip] Myburgh, [Brian] Goodall, [David] Dalling, H.H.S. [Harry Schwarz] …
SU: Stellenbosch University · 1 June 1986 English
Comments on the Report of the Chairman of British Petroleum (BP) South Africa.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 28 April 1986 English
The abolition of the “Pass laws”; influx control; Separate Development policy.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 9 April 1986 English
Summary of speech delivered at a UDF [United Democratic Front] meeting, titled “Where to White politics?”
SU: Stellenbosch University · 15 February 1986 English
Letter to the Editor in response to Ken Owen’s attack on him after his resignation from Parliament.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 14 February 1986 Afrikaans
Photocopy of a letter by Roelf Meyer published in: Beeld, 1986.02.14.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 13 February 1986 English
Re the characteristics of Apartheid; the necessity of getting rid of the system and in what way it contributed towards FVZS’s resignation.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 8 February 1986 English
Address by Dr Frederick (sic) van Zyl Slabbert, former leader of the Parliamentary Opposition Party, to the Harvard Business School 54th AMP class reunion, Mala Mala. Transcription of speech, followed …
SU: Stellenbosch University · 8 February 1986 English
Address by Dr Frederick (sic) van Zyl Slabbert, former leader of the Parliamentary Opposition Party, to the Harvard Business School 54th AMP class reunion, Mala Mala. Transcription of speech, followed …
SU: Stellenbosch University · 2 February 1986 English
Article in response to a question from business executives asking how they can improve their image with opinion forming Blacks; FVZS puts questions to executives which he has had to …