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 · 25 March 2000 Afrikaans
Lecture given as part of Die Burger lecture series at the Klein Karoo National Arts Festival (KKNK). FVZS looks at different interpretations of the words “African” and “Renaissance”; comes to …
SU: Stellenbosch University · 1 June 1999 English
Overview of election politics and voter behaviour in South Africa after the 1999 election; Ken Owen; FVZS’s election campaigns as Opposition Leader in the “old” South Africa; Tony Leon and …
SU: Stellenbosch University · 1 May 1999 Afrikaans
Article about Nelson Mandela for Insig.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 30 April 1999 English
Poses the question where real opposition to Government lies after five years as a democracy under a predominantly Liberal Democratic constitution; factors that constrain the decisions of Government are the …
SU: Stellenbosch University · 22 April 1999 Afrikaans
Article on Nelson Mandela, accompanied by a letter from the Assistant Editor of Insig, requesting an article by F. van Zyl Slabbert on President Nelson Mandela as well as a …
SU: Stellenbosch University · 22 April 1999 Afrikaans
Article on Nelson Mandela, accompanied by a letter from the Assistant Editor of Insig, requesting an article by F. van Zyl Slabbert on President Nelson Mandela as well as a …
SU: Stellenbosch University · 22 April 1999
Article on Nelson Mandela, accompanied by a letter from the Assistant Editor of Insig, requesting an article by F. van Zyl Slabbert on President Nelson Mandela as well as a …
SU: Stellenbosch University · 21 April 1999 English
Paper presented at a colloquium for Theo Hanf on his 60th birthday. Arnold Bergsträsser Institute. Freiburg, Germany.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 1 March 1999 Afrikaans
Speech given at the National Arts Festival, Oudtshoorn.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 1 May 1998 English
Zanzibar Conference. Described by FVZS as: “… not a paper in any sense of the word, only a collection of random thoughts to stimulate discussion.”