• Article for FM on electoral reform 

      Slabbert, F. van Zyl (Frederik van Zyl), 1940-2010
      Article for FM on electoral reform accompanied by the manuscript and email requesting that article be sent.
    • Article for Germiston City News 

      Slabbert, F. van Zyl (Frederik van Zyl), 1940-2010
      Variant of the article written for The Citizen on 1983.09.15, criticising efforts to encourage English-speaking voters to vote “yes” in the forthcoming referendum.
    • Article for Insig, criticizing corruption and fraud in the ranks of the ANC 

      Slabbert, F. van Zyl (Frederik van Zyl), 1940-2010
      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 judge, Willem Heath.
    • 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 Leadership 1986-11 

      Slabbert, F. van Zyl (Frederik van Zyl), 1940-2010
      Lead sentence: “The tragedy of South Africa lies in the continued denial of its potential. It is a magnificent country whose future remains frustrated by its past”.
    • 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”.
    • 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.
    • Article for Millennium 

      Slabbert, F. van Zyl (Frederik van Zyl), 1940-2010
      Re the uncertainty of imposing a time-frame on the duration, and the futility of predicting the outcome of the transition in South Africa.
    • 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.
    • 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 ...
    • 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 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 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 Sunday Star 

      Slabbert, F. van Zyl (Frederik van Zyl), 1940-2010
      Responds to various questions put to him after P.W. Botha’s opening speech for Parliament, e.g., whether the PFP would consider entering into a coalition [with the NP] and what the PFP’s game plan of strategy will be after ...
    • Article for Sunday Times (Fleur de Villiers) 

      Slabbert, F. van Zyl (Frederik van Zyl), 1940-2010
      Poses the question: “What to do with the “urban blacks?”
    • Article for Sunday Times 1985-01-12 

      Slabbert, F. van Zyl (Frederik van Zyl), 1940-2010
      Article about the new constitution that has generated expectations of reform; distinguishes between symbolic and material reform; role of the PFP in the new Parliament in the coming year.
    • Article for Sunday Times 1985-05-09 

      Slabbert, F. van Zyl (Frederik van Zyl), 1940-2010
      Article stating FVZS’s conviction that negotiation politics presents the only possible solution to conflicts, but a distinction must be made between “up-front-public-politics” and “back-door-behind-the-scenes-politics”; ...
    • Article for Sunday Times 1986-11-13 

      Slabbert, F. van Zyl (Frederik van Zyl), 1940-2010
      IDASA (Institute for a Democratic Alternative for South Africa).
    • Article for Sunday Tribune 

      Slabbert, F. van Zyl (Frederik van Zyl), 1940-2010
      “When it comes to the question: What should the (West German, British, USA, etc.,) Government’s policy be towards South Africa?, the answer, simply put, is either: Confrontation or Constructive Engagement.”
    • Article for Sunday Tribune 1983-10-21 

      Slabbert, F. van Zyl (Frederik van Zyl), 1940-2010
      Open letter to the Voters of the White electorate, urging them to vote “No” in the coming Referendum.