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 · 9 February 1993 English
“Some implications of the current agenda for transition for future regional/metropolitan government.”
SU: Stellenbosch University · 1 February 1993 English
Two critical phases that have to be overcome before elections can take place are the Codesa III phase, followed by the TEC (Transitional Executive Council) phase; consensus essential, but give …
SU: Stellenbosch University · 6 January 1993 English
Afrikaans version published in: Die Suid-Afrikaan, no. 43, pp. 4 - 8, under the title: “Die ABC van die oorgang na demokrasie”.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 1 December 1992 English
The new worldwide wave of democratization can be useful to understanding the dynamics of South Africa’s transition to democracy; argues that the breakup of CODESA “was a good thing”: the …
SU: Stellenbosch University · 24 November 1992 English
Opening address Damelin College. Braamfontein Campus.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 12 November 1992 Afrikaans
Published in: Die Suid-Afrikaan, no. 42, December 1992/January 1993, p. 5.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 1 October 1992 English
Article by Robert von Lucius: “Athol Fugard - South African playwright of international repute.” South Africa International, October 1992, pp.78 - 81.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 1 October 1992 English
WIP 85. FVZS’s response to a review by Jeremy Cronin, who criticised him for displaying “elite cynicism” and “dismissing broader forms of democracy” in his book, The quest for democracy: …
SU: Stellenbosch University · 29 September 1992 English
P E P. Restructuring the Civil Service by Dr. F. van Zyl Slabbert on 29 September 1992.
SU: Stellenbosch University · 29 September 1992 Afrikaans
Asks whether South Africa has the “social cement” to bring about social cohesion; comes to the conclusion that in spite of exclusive and inclusive intolerance, there is also a greater …