South Africans are “happy” about the newly-formed Cabinet under the Government of National Unity, a new study reveals.
A social media sentiment analysis has revealed that South Africans are “happy” about the newly-formed Cabinet under the Government of National Unity .
The happiness index is constructed by monitoring and extracting the tweets of South Africans and analysing the sentiment of these tweets. A sentiment score is allocated to each tweet, classifying the tweet as either negative, neutral or positive. The highly-anticipated announcement took place after Ramaphosa was elected as president by the National Assembly on Friday, 14 June, after which he was inaugurated on Wednesday, 19 June.
However, they also see an increase in negative emotion words, such as “bad” and “afraid”, but with a positive net effect.
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