The Epoch Times Article Rating

South Africa Elections: Cycle of Failing Socialist Government Likely to Continue

Oct 25, 2021 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    50% Medium Conservative

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  • Policy Leaning

    20% Somewhat Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    51% Positive

Bias Score Analysis

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : Thus did the beneficiaries of affirmative action and cadre deployment convince themselves that it was now their "turn to eat.
48% : However, the problems with affirmative action were exacerbated by the ANC's "cadre deployment" policy, which saw the ruling party run a system where ANC coalition members were deployed to all levels of government and the economy.
32% : While all levels of South African government have been undermined by maladministration, corruption, and affirmative action policies, the worst damage has occurred at the municipal level, which has seen failures in the performance of water and sewerage systems, electricity blackouts, and potholed roads.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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