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 · 29 March 1982 English
Questions for Deurbraak.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 20 March 1982 Afrikaans
Toespraak deur Sy Edele P.W. Botha, DVD LV, Eerste Minister, tydens die amptelike ingebruikneming van die Hoofkwartier: Paarl Kommando op 20 Maart 1982.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 18 March 1982 Afrikaans
Toespraak deur Sy Edele P.W. Botha, DVD LV, Eerste Minister, by geleentheid van die Nasionale Mielieprodusente Organisasie se Jaarkongres te Klerksdorp op 18 Maart 1982.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 1982 English
Article re the significance of the recent split in the National Party, when Dr Andries Treurnicht and a group of this ultra-right-wing supporters broke away, leading to the founding of …
SU: Stellenbosch University · 16 September 1981 English
Most important political development during [1981] was the impact and outcome of the General Election; other developments were the growth of the black labour movement, the revival of the Namibian …
SU: Stellenbosch University · 16 September 1981 English
Most important political development during [1981] was the impact and outcome of the General Election; other developments were the growth of the black labour movement, the revival of the Namibian …
SU: Stellenbosch University · 16 September 1981 English
Most important political development during [1981] was the impact and outcome of the General Election; other developments were the growth of the black labour movement, the revival of the Namibian …
SU: Stellenbosch University · 16 September 1981
Most important political development during [1981] was the impact and outcome of the General Election; other developments were the growth of the black labour movement, the revival of the Namibian …
SU: Stellenbosch University · 12 August 1981 English
Lead sentence: “The Government has been warned time and again that its policy of black resettlement in the Homelands and particularly its policy of treating the Cape Western Region as …
SU: Stellenbosch University · 23 June 1981 Afrikaans
Argues that “White Politics” is not irrelevant if set against the discrepancy of a political system where [white] people in Parliament can make binding decisions about the majority of their …