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 · 17 March 1981 English
Changes to FVZS’s Financial Mail article by Prof. N.J.J. Olivier.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 12 March 1981 English
Article for Evening Post and Letter, inviting FVZS to state his party’s viewpoints by ways of a leader page article.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 12 March 1981 English
Article for Evening Post and Letter, inviting FVZS to state his party’s viewpoints by ways of a leader page article.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 8 February 1981 English
Questions the timing of the Prime Minister’s announcement of a General Election for April 29.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 1981 English
The PFP’s policy statement for the up-coming election.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 25 October 1979 English
Article for The Star entitled: 'a look into the 80's', and letter from H. W. Tyson, Editor, requesting an article, as part of, “a series of articles written by five …
SU: Stellenbosch University · 25 October 1979 English
Article for The Star entitled: 'a look into the 80's', and letter from H. W. Tyson, Editor, requesting an article, as part of, “a series of articles written by five …
SU: Stellenbosch University · 25 October 1979
Article for The Star entitled: 'a look into the 80's', and letter from H. W. Tyson, Editor, requesting an article, as part of, “a series of articles written by five …
SU: Stellenbosch University · 7 August 1975 English
The eighth E.G. Malherbe Academic Freedom Lecture. Delivered at the University of Natal, Durban. Academic Freedom Committee. Students’ Representative Council. University of Natal, Durban, 1975.
SU: Stellenbosch University English
Article on African experience in constitution building processes.