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 September 1983 English
Slogans urging voters to vote “no” in the 1983 tricameral referendum.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 26 August 1983 English
Re the Government’s new Constitution Bill; minimum essentials for a new and better constitutional plan to succeed; reasons why the PFP is convinced that it is a step in the …
SU: Stellenbosch University · 1 August 1983 English
Speech given at Rondebosch Town Hall.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 18 July 1983 English
Article for the Pretoria News regarding final questions for a new constitution.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 2 June 1983 English
Article re the conflicting opinions held by Mr Carter Ebrahim and Mr David Curry of the Labour Party on the National Party’s new Constitutions Bill; reasons why the Progressive Federal …
SU: Stellenbosch University · 5 May 1983 English
Statement by Dr. F. van Zyl Slabbert, M. P. at Waterkloof, Pretoria on 5 May 1983.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 5 May 1983 Afrikaans
Speech by Dr. F. van Zyl Slabbert, M. P. at Waterkloof, Pretoria on 5 May 1983.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 4 May 1983 English
Change; Tri-cameral Parliament and President’s Council; urban Blacks; segregated parks in Pretoria; power-sharing; Immorality Act and the Mixed Marriages Act; inflation rate.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 4 May 1983 Afrikaans
Article about the by-election in Waterkloof.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 20 April 1983 English
The Waterkloof by-election and the Conservative Party; the fundamental differences between the CP, the National Party and the PFP.