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 · 12 October 1984 English
Extracts of speech at the PFP Natal Provincial Congress - 12 October 1984.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 15 September 1984 English
Extracts from speech by Dr F. van Zyl Slabbert, M.P., at Cape Congress of the Progressive Federal Party on 15 September 1984.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 30 August 1984 English
Poses the question: “What to do with the “urban blacks?”
SU: Stellenbosch University · 16 August 1984 English
Summary of a speech delivered at the Randse Afrikaanse Universiteit.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 16 August 1984 English
Article for the Financial Mail column “In my opinion.”
SU: Stellenbosch University · 4 June 1984 English
Article for Senator G. Malagodi, Liberal International.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 15 May 1984 English
Extract of speech delivered at Claremont branch annual general meeting on 15 May 1984 at 8pm.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 11 April 1984 English
Extract of speech by Dr F. van Zyl Slabbert, M.P., to students at the campus of the University of Natal, Durban.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 7 February 1984 English
Reasons why the PFP is the only Opposition worth supporting in Pinetown.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 19 January 1984 Afrikaans
S.A. Sosiologiese Vereniging 19 January 1984 Bloemfontein.