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 · 19 November 2007 Afrikaans
Article about the current misuse of power for party political purposes. Title of magazine incorrectly given as Die Vrye Weekblad and the date as 2008. Accompanied by an email sent …
SU: Stellenbosch University · 11 September 2007 English
Article about Mandela for a book accompanied by a letter requesting a contribution for a book of special tributes to be presented to Nelson Mandela at their Business Times Top …
SU: Stellenbosch University · 11 September 2007 English
Article about Mandela for a book accompanied by a letter requesting a contribution for a book of special tributes to be presented to Nelson Mandela at their Business Times Top …
SU: Stellenbosch University · 11 September 2007 English
Article about Mandela for a book accompanied by a letter requesting a contribution for a book of special tributes to be presented to Nelson Mandela at their Business Times Top …
SU: Stellenbosch University · 10 September 2007 Afrikaans
Article on floor-crossing for By, the national week-end supplement [to Die Burger, Beeld and Volksblad]. Accompanied by an email as a reminder of the article.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 10 September 2007 English
Article on floor-crossing for By, the national week-end supplement [to Die Burger, Beeld and Volksblad]. Accompanied by an email as a reminder of the article.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 1 July 2007 English
“ I [FVZS] wish to focus on Government since 1994 and look at three inter-related aspects of Government: The goals it sets for the country, secondly the instruments it creates …
SU: Stellenbosch University · 27 June 2007 English
A contemplation of the increasing confusion that surfaced at ANC, SACP conferences about how to go about their respective missions “to deliver South Africa from the evils of capitalism and …
SU: Stellenbosch University · 27 June 2007
A contemplation of the increasing confusion that surfaced at ANC, SACP conferences about how to go about their respective missions “to deliver South Africa from the evils of capitalism and …
SU: Stellenbosch University · 4 June 2007 English
The 60th annual conference of the World Association of Newspapers (WAN) was held in Cape Town, June 3 to 6 2007. Attached are notes for WAN Conference - Cape Town …