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 · 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 …
SU: Stellenbosch University · 2 February 1986
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 …
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 …
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 …
SU: Stellenbosch University · 26 January 1986 English
A comparison between the forthcoming election in 1987 and the last white election in 1981; questions the timing of the election.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 21 November 1985 English
Minutes of evidence given before the Foreign Affairs Committee, Session 1985 - 86, by Dr van Zyl Slabbert and Mr C.W. Eglin, Progressive Federal Party of South Africa. London: H.M.S.O., …
SU: Stellenbosch University · 29 October 1985 English
Speech following the extention of the State of Emergency to the Western Cape at Claremont Civic Centre in public meeting.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 14 October 1985 English
Speech delivered by Dr F. van Zyl Slabbert, M.P., at the launch of the Van Zyl Slabbert Trust in Cape Town.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 8 September 1985 English
Gives an overview of the present circumstances under the State of Emergency; pointless to call a National Convention immediately, but proposes actions that a Convention Alliance could be involved in …