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 April 2006 English
Published in: Molt, Peter and Dikow, Helga (eds.). Kulturen und Konflikte im Vergleich: Festschrift für Theodor Hanf. Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2007, pp. 23 - 24.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 2006 English
Article written for Financial Mail about Helen Suzman. Attached are two emails. One requests an article for a Financial Mail publication to commemorate the 1956 women’s march to the Union …
SU: Stellenbosch University · 2006 English
Published in: M. Shain (Editor): Opposing voices: Liberalism and opposition. Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball, 2006.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 2006 English
Article written for Financial Mail about Helen Suzman. Attached are two emails. One requests an article for a Financial Mail publication to commemorate the 1956 women’s march to the Union …
SU: Stellenbosch University · 2006 English
Article written for Financial Mail about Helen Suzman. Attached are two emails. One requests an article for a Financial Mail publication to commemorate the 1956 women’s march to the Union …
SU: Stellenbosch University · 1 May 2005 English
Article on Helen Suzman.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 1 October 2003 English
Academic Freedom Lecture, given at the University of Cape Town. Published in: UCT News. Cape Town: University of Cape Town, October 2003.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 23 September 2003 English
Speech delivered at the Aardklop Arts Festival, [Potchefstroom], to lead in the annual Sol Plaatje Discourse Series.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 2001 Afrikaans
'Demografiese, ekonomiese en onderwysdata. Tentative thoughts regarding the allotment of universities according to teaching language.' Trusts FVZS’s insights; asks suggestions for follow-up actions on Du Plessis’s report.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 2001 Afrikaans
'Demografiese, ekonomiese en onderwysdata. Tentative thoughts regarding the allotment of universities according to teaching language.' Trusts FVZS’s insights; asks suggestions for follow-up actions on Du Plessis’s report.