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Explanations of meaning-making generally prioritise intrapersonal processes. Although making meaning is an intrapersonal process, it is also strongly influenced by person-context interactions and cultural positioning. Nevertheless, the meaning-making literature has paid scant attention to how such interactivity and positioning shape meaning-making. In this article, we highlight the compound character of resilience-promoting meaning-making. To this end, we recount the instrumental cases of Ntando's and Sipho's resilience. The accounts of these black South African students’ positive adjustment to adversity richly illustrate how their lived experiences of a social ecology stimulated multifaceted meaning-making processes. In particular, Ntando's and Sipho's interpersonal experiences and Africentric worldviews gave rise to and/or moderated positive re-appraisal, revisioned goals, purposeful direction, application of spiritual beliefs, identification of benefits, sense-making and reflective problem-solving. Although both their stories drive an understanding of meaning-making as a helix-like process with inter-, intrapersonal and cultural strands, the differences in their accounts of meaning-making stimulate the need for deeper exploration into the complexity of resilience-promoting meaning-making processes. http://dx.doi.org/ 10.1080/14330237.2014.904099 http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14330237.2014.904099

The diet of the aardwolf, Proteles cristatus at Malolotja Nature Reserve, western Swaziland Sipho N. Matsebula, Ara Monadjem*, Kim G. Roques and David K. Garcelon All Out Africa Research Unit, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Swaziland, Private Bag 4, Kwaluseni, Swaziland, All Out Africa, PO Box 153, Lobamba, Swaziland and Institute for Wildlife Studies, PO Box 1104, Arcata 95518, CA, U.S.A.

Stephen Gray's volume of interviews reflects a convergence of his oppor? tunities and his interests. It is organized chronologically and the earlier interviews are longer and more focused in their exploration of writers' work and ideas. Of the first twelve writers (Nadine Gordimer, Dan Jacobson, Guy Butler, Douglas Livingstone, Sipho Sepamla, Fatima Dike, Alan Scholefield, Ross Devenish, Doris Lessing, Jeremy Cronin, Gcina Mhlophe, and Dennis Brutus), all but three were, when interviewed, resident in South Africa. Then there is a sudden shift and of the remaining eleven writers (Edouard J. Maunick, Taban Lo Liyong, Luis Bernardo Honwana, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Nuruddin Farah, Ahmadou

Professor Malegapuru Makgoba and Professor Sipho Seepe, while serving as the acting Vice-Chancellors of the then University of Natal (now the University of KwaZulu-Natal) and of Vista University, respectively, were authorised by the Minister of Education at the time, Kader Asmal, to produce a document that charted the way forward for transformation in higher education. This responsibility, assigned to Kader Asmal by the State President, Thabo Mbeki, was delegated to Makgoba and Seepe within the framework of regular interactions with the State President (Seepe, 2004). Thus it would appear that the attempt toward drawing up the agenda for educational transformation took place within a broader political project. The resultant paper appeared as a key chapter “Knowledge and Identity: An African Vision of Higher Education Transformation” (Makgoba & Seepe, 2004) in the book Towards an African Identity in Institutions of Higher Learning edited by Seepe (2004). My paper, which had its genesis in an invitation to present a paper at the launch of the book, is based on a critique of Makgoba’s and Seepe’s essentialist notion of an African identity and their call to replace the Eurocentric with the Afrocentric.

Examination of the holotype of Sipho gaini Lamy, 1910, attributed by recent authors to the genus Chlanidota (Buccinulidae), revealed that this species belongs to the genus Belaturricula and is a senior synonym of Belaturricula antarctica Dell, 1990. A redescription of the shell, anterior alimentary system, and radular morphology of Belaturricula gaini is provided. The genus Belaturricula is transferred to the family Conidae (sensu Taylor et al. 1993) on the basis of its radula, which is composed of hollow marginal teeth. The presence of a large shell, prominent operculum, acinous salivary glands, radular teeth with narrow bases in B. gaini, as well as the absence of buccal lips and rhyncodeal introvert, all indicate affinities with the conid subfamily Clathurellinae. Because the radula of Pontiothauma ergata Hedley (1916) is nearly indistinguishable from that of Belaturricula gaini, we reassign Hedley's species to the genus Belaturricula as Belaturricula ergata (Hedley, 1916).

An illustrated glossary of terms used in the analysis of the shells of recent and fossil foraminifera supplemented by a rigorous selection of terms that facilitate an understanding of their biology and their use in ecology and biostratigraphy. The glossary includes some 650 entries illustrated by 83 - often composite – figures many of which are stereographs or 3D models. A taxonomic index lists the 140 taxa illustrated.

The purpose of this study is the reconstruction of the system of the South African novel during 1981 by means of the comparison of three novels and their reception. The three novels are Op die rug van die tier by Anna M. Louw, A ride on the whirlwind by Sipho Sepamla and July's people by Nadine Gordimer.

Review of The Struggle For South Africa: A Reference Guide to Movements, Organizations, and Institutions by Rob Davies, Dan O'Meara, and Sipho Dlamini.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website.