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Low-income urban African communities in South Africa constitute a market for low-cost products. Although urbanised, these communities' traditional rural food consumption behaviour is often still present, and this includes large volumes of sour milk or Maas. The low-income urban African is, however, deprived of this product due to numerous factors, resulting in nutritional shortages in the diet. Therefore, the demand exists in low income urban African communities for a low-cost fermented milk product with high nutritional value that is safe to consume and that is comparable in taste to traditional Maas. Kefir, a fermented milk product of Russian origin, has the ability to satisfy these needs.

This study is an investigation into the compatibility of Japanese perceived economic interests in South Africa with their public stance against apartheid during the height of international sanctions against South Africa (1985–1991). The hypothesis is that economic interests will always supersede all other issues in Japanese foreign policy. By utilizing events data supplemented by trade statistics and interviews with decisionmakers, we found that although Japanese anti‐apartheid rhetoric was intense and sanctions were implemented against South Africa, Japan nonetheless emerged as South Africa's leading trading partner in 1987. The brief span of this investigation and the subsequent implementation of democracy in South Africa dictates retesting of the hypothesis. We are of the opinion that the hypothesis will remain valid.

Historically, two major developments in social science have converged to permit and provoke the political scientist's interst in attitude survey research. The first is the improvement in survey methods and methodology. A particular methodology is followed in this article in which the basic components of an attitude survey are analised, i.e. the nature of the concept “attitude”; the political relevance as regards the phenomenon of the group of which attitudes are measured; the nature of the phenomenon; and the survey methods applied such as sampling, scale construction, pilot study, administration, and statistical expression of findings etc. The second historic impetus to the political scientist ‘s interest in attitude survey research is the recent flowering of comparative politics, with its special focus on modernising societies. In this regard, KwaZulu is classified as a modernising society. The nature of student involvement in the independence struggle of the Third World is used as a frame of r...

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