Frederik van Zyl Slabbert articles: Recent submissions

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    • Paradoxes built into our constitutional future 

      Slabbert, F. van Zyl (Frederik van Zyl), 1940-2010
      Article for Squire Magazine regarding paradoxes built into our constitutional future.

    • South Africa and the world in the nineties 

      Slabbert, F. van Zyl (Frederik van Zyl), 1940-2010
      A description of the political climate inherited by F.W. de Klerk when he assumed office in August 1989, his fundamental policy shift and the motives underlying his initiatives, as well as the processes being set in motion.

    • Idasa and opposition politics 

      Slabbert, F. van Zyl (Frederik van Zyl), 1940-2010
      Generally stated, “Opposition politics [in South Africa] is being shaped by the dynamics of right-wing reaction and left-wing revolt and either is a consequence of the dynamics of reform initiated by the State. In other ...

    • Article for Jeff Opland - South African (sic) Foundation 

      Slabbert, F. van Zyl (Frederik van Zyl), 1940-2010; Opland, Jeff
      Article for Jeff Opland - South African (sic) Foundation. Assessment of the State President’s [P.W. Botha] speech at the Opening of Parliament, 1985, his offer to Nelson Mandela and other prisoners and banned organisations, ...

    • Article for South 1987-06-17 

      Slabbert, F. van Zyl (Frederik van Zyl), 1940-2010
      Lead sentence: “Political language used by the ruling establishment in South Africa suffers from a bad dose of verbal inflation”.

    • Article for South 1987-05-26 

      Slabbert, F. van Zyl (Frederik van Zyl), 1940-2010
      Lead sentence: “One of the legacies of almost 40 years of NP rule, has been the inflation of words beyond any recognised meaning. They lose their value in the difficult art of communication”.

    • Article for Rapport 1992-09-29 

      Slabbert, F. van Zyl (Frederik van Zyl), 1940-2010
      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 move to inclusive tolerance, however slow.

    • Article for Rapport 1981-06-23 

      Slabbert, F. van Zyl (Frederik van Zyl), 1940-2010
      Argues that “White Politics” is not irrelevant if set against the discrepancy of a political system where [white] people in Parliament can make binding decisions about the majority of their [non-white] countrymen, without ...

    • Is democratic government possible in divided societies? 

      Slabbert, F. van Zyl (Frederik van Zyl), 1940-2010
      Second of two articles for the Rand Daily Mail on the Germany (sic) Conference.

    • Problems of violence and democracy in divided societies 

      Slabbert, F. van Zyl (Frederik van Zyl), 1940-2010
      First of two articles for the Rand Daily Mail on the German Conference.

    • Article for The Pretoria News 

      Slabbert, F. van Zyl (Frederik van Zyl), 1940-2010
      Questions the Government’s efforts to persuade “English-speaking and other well-intentioned voters” to vote “yes” in the November referendum.

    • Final questions for a new constitution 

      Slabbert, F. van Zyl (Frederik van Zyl), 1940-2010
      Article for the Pretoria News regarding final questions for a new constitution.

    • Answers to questions from The Pretoria News 

      Slabbert, F. van Zyl (Frederik van Zyl), 1940-2010
      Change; Tri-cameral Parliament and President’s Council; urban Blacks; segregated parks in Pretoria; power-sharing; Immorality Act and the Mixed Marriages Act; inflation rate.

    • Article for The Pretoria News - on the by-elections 

      Slabbert, F. van Zyl (Frederik van Zyl), 1940-2010
      The Waterkloof by-election and the Conservative Party; the fundamental differences between the CP, the National Party and the PFP.

    • Article for Optima 

      Slabbert, F. van Zyl (Frederik van Zyl), 1940-2010
      Criticism of Ken Owen and Jos Gerson’s articles in Optima (December 1987) about the present and future contribution of liberalism to the evolving conflict in South Africa; Afrikaners; incremental change.

    • Nelson Mandela 

      Slabbert, F. van Zyl (Frederik van Zyl), 1940-2010; Wiese, Tobie; Nothard, Jenny
      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 covering letter 1999-05-04.

    • South Africa and negotiating in politics - myths and prospects 

      Slabbert, F. van Zyl (Frederik van Zyl), 1940-2010
      Article for Optima regarding South Africa and negotiating in politics - myths and prospects.

    • Article for Los Angeles Times 

      Slabbert, F. van Zyl (Frederik van Zyl), 1940-2010
      The abolition of the “Pass laws”; influx control; Separate Development policy.

    • The London Times 

      Slabbert, F. van Zyl (Frederik van Zyl), 1940-2010
      Re the characteristics of Apartheid; the necessity of getting rid of the system and in what way it contributed towards FVZS’s resignation.

    • Article for Leadership 1990-12 

      Slabbert, F. van Zyl (Frederik van Zyl), 1940-2010
      Lead sentence: “There are frequent flashes of irritation from various quarters involved in the dynamics of transition in South Africa”.