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 · 1 March 1985 English
Extract of speech delivered at P.F.P. Youth Congress on 1 March 1985.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 26 February 1985 English
Extract of speech to [the] Press Club.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 19 February 1985 English
Extract of speech delivered at the annual general meeting of the PFP branch at Elgin.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 8 February 1985 English
Article for Jeff Opland - South African (sic) Foundation. Assessment of the State President’s [P.W. Botha] speech at the Opening of Parliament, 1985, his offer to Nelson Mandela and other …
SU: Stellenbosch University · 8 February 1985 English
Article for Jeff Opland - South African (sic) Foundation. Assessment of the State President’s [P.W. Botha] speech at the Opening of Parliament, 1985, his offer to Nelson Mandela and other …
SU: Stellenbosch University · 12 January 1985 English
Article about the new constitution that has generated expectations of reform; distinguishes between symbolic and material reform; role of the PFP in the new Parliament in the coming year.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 1985 English
Article for Leadership South Africa.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 1985 English
Article for 'Leadersip SA' by Dr. van Zyl Slabbert, M. P., entitled: “South Africa: the pitfalls, problems and prospects of reform”.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 29 November 1984 English
Re the decision of the Federal Council of the PFP to no longer observe the [Prohibition of] Political Interference Act, [1968].
SU: Stellenbosch University · 1 November 1984 English
Transvaal Congress speech by Dr. F. van Zyl Slabbert in November 1984.