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 · 26 February 1998 Afrikaans
Article criticizing corruption and fraud in the ranks of the ANC, with reference to the findings of the Commission into maladministration and corruption in government, chaired by former South African …
SU: Stellenbosch University · 1 February 1998 Afrikaans
Article for Insig about corruption in the ANC Government.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 1 January 1998 Afrikaans
Speech given to members of Die Ruiterwag, originally the youth wing of the [Afrikaner] Broederbond.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 1998 Afrikaans
Article for Kopstories on teleological explanations in religion and social discourse.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 1998 Afrikaans
A philosophical contemplation of critical realism, postmodernism, scientific analysis and the ever present tension between imagination and truth.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 1 June 1997 English
Article on the proposed mission for an open society foundation including a reply to George Soros' speech at the Budapest Conference of Open Society Foundations, June 1997.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 1 June 1997 English
Article on the proposed mission for an open society foundation including a reply to George Soros' speech at the Budapest Conference of Open Society Foundations, June 1997.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 1 September 1995 English
Review of Charles van Onselen’s The seed is mine, a biography of Kas Maine, a traditional sharecropper on the South African Highveld.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 1 October 1994 English
Article for Syfrets on the Reconstruction and Development Programme.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 1 September 1994 English
The legitimacy of transition at the Local Government level.