{"id":83206,"date":"2025-10-14T19:27:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T17:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/woordfees.co.za\/uncategorized\/ja-van-zyl-slabbert-was-n-randfiguur\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T14:06:34","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T12:06:34","slug":"ja-van-zyl-slabbert-was-n-randfiguur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/woordfees.co.za\/en\/ink-festival-newspaper-2025\/ja-van-zyl-slabbert-was-n-randfiguur\/","title":{"rendered":"Ja, Van Zyl Slabbert w\u00e1s \u2019n randfiguur"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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EASYEQUITIES SKRYWERSFEES<\/h6>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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Ja, Van Zyl Slabbert w\u00e1s \u2019n randfiguur<\/span><\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tProduksie: Soekende profeet<\/strong>
Deur: Ruhan Fourie<\/strong>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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Wanneer Andries Bezuidenhout<\/span> met Albert Grundlingh<\/span> gesels oor Van Zyl Slabbert, word dit een van die lekkerste, slimste boekgesprekke n\u00f3g.<\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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Biograwe is maar obsessief oor hulle onderwerp. En ek bedoel nie dat hulle totaal versot raak op hulle onderwerp en hom of haar verafgod, soos soms met aanhangers van groot figure uit die verlede gebeur nie. Nee, \u2019n biograaf se obsessie is juis om die kompleksiteit, teenstrydighede en motiverings van hulle onderwerp te verstaan en verwoord. <\/p>

As jy dit verantwoordelik wil doen, is dit \u2019n hengse onderneming. Veral as dit iemand is vir wie maklike antwoorde ongemaklik sit, soos die historikus Albert Grundlingh. Voor hy hom in die lewe van Frederik Van Zyl Slabbert ingegrawe het, moes hy homself eers mooi afvra: \u201cWil jy werklik jou eie lewe aan \u2019n ander persoon s\u2019n wy?\u201d <\/p>

Gelukkig vir ons het Grundlingh hierop bevestigend geantwoord. Die uiteinde is die verskyning van Frederik Van Zyl Slabbert: Soekende profeet<\/em>, \u2019n deeglike biografie wat Donderdagoggend voor \u2019n volgepakte EasyEquities-skrywerskamer bespreek is. Die sosioloog Andries Bezuidenhout van die Fort Hare-Universiteit het hom uitgevra. <\/p>

Historici is lank reeds agterdogtig oor vorige geslagte se beheptheid met die Groot Manne van ons geskiedenis. Om oor hulle te skryf is nie meer in vogue<\/em> nie. En Van Zyl Slabbert is voorwaar een van ons Groot Manne. Hy word immers deur sommiges bestempel as die beste leier wat Suid-Afrika n\u00f3g gehad het nie. <\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Kort voor lank het Bezuidenhout sy notas weggeb\u00eare, agteroorgesit en aangekondig: \u2018Nee, nou gaan ek my vrae eenkant sit, want ek wil liewer gesels.\u2019<\/span><\/h4>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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Bezuidenhout het met die deur in die huis geval deur tereg te wys op watter verrassing dit is dat Grundlingh \u2019n biografie oor so \u2019n hoofstroomfiguur skryf. Die oeuvre van di\u00e9 voormalige departementshoof van geskiedenis aan die US is immers die sosiale geskiedenis van randfigure wat mag en sosiale status betref \u2013 die joiners en hensoppers van die Suid-Afrikaanse oorlog, manne om die honderesiesbane op die Rand in die jare dertig, en die afvalliges in die skadu van verbruikerskultuur in die jare sestig, om enkeles te noem. Grundlingh meen egter Soekende profeet <\/g>wyk nie af van hierdie goue draad nie. Slabbert was immers sy lewe lank \u2019n randfiguur en moet ook so verstaan word. <\/p>

Deur hierdie lens word die wisselwerking tussen Slabbert se reaksies op sy omgewing en die impak van sy omgewing op hom vertolk en vir lesers verstaanbaar gemaak. As kind het Slabbert byvoorbeeld s\u00f3 dikwels getrek dat hy nooit tot ruste gekom het in sy soeke na \u2019n tuiste \u2013 materieel \u00f3f emosioneel \u2013 nie. En tog het dit hom nie bang gemaak vir verandering nie. In tye van politieke skuiwe was di\u00e9 soeke selfs sterker. <\/p>

Kort voor lank het Bezuidenhout sy notas weggeb\u00eare, agteroorgesit en aangekondig: \u201cNee, nou gaan ek my vrae eenkant sit, want ek wil liewer gesels.\u201d Wat gevolg het, was een van die lekkerste en slimste boekgesprekke waarby ek nog was. Grundlingh se geskiedkundige begrip van Slabbert en sy tyd is goed aangevul deur Bezuidenhout se begrip van die sosiologielandskap waarin Slabbert as dosent diep spore getrap het. Dit het gevoel soos twee kennisse wat oor \u2019n gemeenskaplike vriend uit hulle verlede gesels. Hulle het jolig staaltjies vertel en dit afgerond met insig en analise. <\/p>

Op \u2019n vraag oor die openbare herinnering van Slabbert het Grundlingh opgemerk dat hy ook hier \u2019n randfiguur is. Daar is \u2019n geskiedkundige geheueverlies rondom figure soos Slabbert, veral by \u2019n jonger geslag. <\/p>

As \u2019n mens in ag neem dat ek die enigste een in die vertrek was wat nie grys of bles was nie, l\u00ea daar dalk waarheid in Grundlingh se waarneming. Tog, wanneer \u2019n toekomstige geslag Slabbert dalk herontdek, sal Grundlingh se werk uitstaan as \u2019n besonderse bron. <\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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