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 · 4 April 1994 English
Article for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and letter from Robert von Lucius asking F. van Zyl Slabbert to write an article for a newly introduced column, “Foreign pens”, about the forthcoming …
SU: Stellenbosch University · 4 April 1994 English
Article for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and letter from Robert von Lucius asking F. van Zyl Slabbert to write an article for a newly introduced column, “Foreign pens”, about the forthcoming …
SU: Stellenbosch University · 1 March 1994 Afrikaans
Published in: Die Suid-Afrikaan, no. 48, p.7.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 1 September 1993 English
The Star. Referendum article. Afrikaans version published in: Die Suid-Afrikaan, no. 46, November/December 1993, p. 11, under the title: “Barskyk oorweeg ’n referendum”.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 1 September 1993 English
Lead sentence: “For South Africa, first prize would be widely acclaimed, fair and free elections on the 27th April, 1994.”; variations on “worst case outcomes”; transition has been allowed to …
SU: Stellenbosch University · 1 August 1993 English
Published as: “The challenge of institution-building in the transition to democracy”, in: Democratic nation-building in South Africa / editors, Nic Rhoodie, Ian Liebenberg. Pretoria: HSRC Publishers, 1994, pp. 449 - …
SU: Stellenbosch University · 1 July 1993 English
Article written for Die Suid-Afrikaan about restructuring the civil servie (service).
SU: Stellenbosch University · 24 June 1993 Afrikaans
Published in: Die Suid-Afrikaan, no. 45, August/September 1993, p. 11.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 4 June 1993 English
Alan Paton Memorial Lecture by Dr. F. van Zyl Slabbert on 4 June 1993.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 30 April 1993 English
“The global significance of a successful transition in South Africa.” After dinner talk at the Aspen Conference dinner.