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 January 1984 English
Paper presented at the SAIIA[South African Institute of International Affairs]/World Peace Foundation Conference, Hilton, Natal, 17 - 20 January, 1984.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 18 November 1983 English
Opening address ; PFP Federal Congress on 18 November 1983.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 3 November 1983 English
Contemplates the aftermath of the referendum; it is imperative that the Government should test Coloured and Asian support before implementing the constitution.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 24 October 1983 English
Pietermaritzburg Chamber of Commerce on 24 October 1983.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 21 October 1983 English
Open letter to the Voters of the White electorate, urging them to vote “No” in the coming Referendum.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 4 October 1983 English
“The new constitution - how can it work?”.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 26 September 1983 English
Text of speech delivered by Dr. F. van Zyl Slabbert, M. P. at a luncheon held in the Carlton Hotel, Johannesburg on Monday, 26 September 1983.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 15 September 1983 English
Denounces [media] efforts to persuade English-speaking voters to vote “yes” in the November 2nd referendum for a new constitution.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 15 September 1983 English
Questions the Government’s efforts to persuade “English-speaking and other well-intentioned voters” to vote “yes” in the November referendum.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 6 September 1983 English
Article for Squire Magazine regarding paradoxes built into our constitutional future.