Van Zyl Slabbert

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Frederik Van Zyl Slabbert (1940 – 2010) [1] was a South African brilliant academic, political analyst, businessman and politician. He is best known for having been the leader of the official opposition — the Progressive Federal Party (PFP) — in the House of Assembly from 1979 to 1986. He was also a one-time Chancellor of the University of Stellenbosch.

Contribution to South African Theatre, Film, Media and Performance

Usually referred to as Van Zyl Slabbert, he was a member of the Libertas Teaterklub in Stellenbosch while he was a student and later lecturer at Stellenbosch University. Among his appearances for them were in Die Ander Vuur an Afrikaans version of Terence Rattigan's The Deep Blue Sea

Sources

Libertas Teaterklub theatre programme 1968.

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