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 · 30 August 1985 English
Speech delivered at the PFP Federal Congress, 30 August 1985 held in Durban.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 25 August 1985 English
Extract of speech by Dr. F. van Zyl Slabbert to Inkatha Youth Conference at Ulundi on 25 August 1985.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 16 August 1985 English
Article on P.W. Botha’s “Rubicon speech”, delivered on 1985.08.16 in Durban.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 7 August 1985 English
Extract of speech delivered by Dr F. van Zyl Slabbert, M.P., to the Diamond Club, Johannesburg.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 25 July 1985 English
Article dealing with contributing factors resulting in a State of Emergency, identified by Prof [Lawrence] Schlemmer, Director of the Centre for Applied Social Research in Durban, Natal.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 15 July 1985 Afrikaans
Speech given at ASB (Afrikaanse Studentebond) Congress on 15 July 1985.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 19 June 1985 English
Address to the KwaZulu Legislative Assembly. Summary.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 24 May 1985 English
Extract of speech delivered by Dr. F. van Zyl Slabbert at Umhlali, Natal public meeting on 24 May 1985.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 23 May 1985 English
Extract of speech to [the] American Chamber of Commerce.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 9 May 1985 English
Article stating FVZS’s conviction that negotiation politics presents the only possible solution to conflicts, but a distinction must be made between “up-front-public-politics” and “back-door-behind-the-scenes-politics”; preconditions for successful negotiations; dilemmas for …