new chair Honouring van zyl slabbert

A new chair honouring the late South African political analyst, businessman and politician Frederik van Zyl Slabbert (above), has been established in the Faculty of Humanities. The Van Zyl Slabbert Chair has been made possible through the Open Society Foundation for South Africa, which has provided an initial five-year grant to fund a series of Van Zyl Slabbert Visiting Professorships in the departments of Political Studies and Sociology between 2013 and 2018. The chair’s first incumbent is Professor Roger Southall, former head of sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand and Distinguished Research Fellow at the Human Sciences Research Council.