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 · 20 April 1983 English
Article for The Citizen - on the Waterkloof by-election.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 11 April 1983 English
Second of two articles for the Rand Daily Mail on the Germany (sic) Conference.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 11 April 1983 English
First of two articles for the Rand Daily Mail on the German Conference.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 1983 English
Variant of the article written for The Citizen on 1983.09.15, criticising efforts to encourage English-speaking voters to vote “yes” in the forthcoming referendum.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 1 December 1982 English
Replies by Dr F. van Zyl Slabbert, M.P., to questions asked by Jaap Theron, political correspondent of The Citizen.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 12 October 1982 English
Deon Du Plessis - Sunday Tribune
SU: Stellenbosch University · 3 June 1982 English
Article about running the Comrades Marathon.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 9 May 1982 English
Article. The PFP’s stand on the NP’s “step in the right direction” politics and its position should the Government introduce reforms; questions what exactly is meant by the term “reform”.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 4 May 1982 English
Speech delivered at the Edgar Brookes Memorial Lecture (formerly called the Edgar Brookes Lecture for Academic & Human Freedom), at the University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 17 April 1982 Afrikaans
Toespraak deur Sy Edele P.W. Botha, DVD LV, Eerste Minister, tydens ’n openbare vergadering te Oudtshoorn op 17 April 1982.