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PROBLEM: Verify if the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Jacob Zuma is Neutral . JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africaâs ruling African National Congress party on Tuesday put off a key meeting due to discuss President Jacob Zumaâs future later this week  while an online news service quoted sources saying he was ready to quit if certain conditions were met.
 Zuma  has been in a weakened position since  he  was replaced as leader of the ANC by Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa in December.  Zuma  no longer holds a top position in the party.
But the scheduled meeting of the National Executive Committee  which has the power to demand that  Zuma  step down  was suddenly moved to the weekend of Feb. 17.
The party has faced uncertainty over how its dual power structure will function  after Ramaphosa took the reins of the party with  Zuma  remaining as head of state. Zumaâs tenure officially runs until mid-2019.
Then  Times Live  an online news service  issued a report citing sources saying  Zuma  would resign as soon as a list of preconditions has been finalised in a deal struck with Ramaphosa.
Magashule  who attended the meeting between the two leaders  would not confirm whether  Zuma  had agreed to resign  although other ANC leaders said the agreed deal would see  Zuma  âgo in a dignified wayâ  Times Live said.
 Zuma  has been South Africaâs most controversial president since the end of white minority rule in 1994  enwrapped in scandal during a tumultuous nine years in power.
 He  has faced several allegations of corruption. Some within the ANC and the opposition say the Gupta family  friends of  Zuma   have used their links with the president to win work with the state. The Guptas and  Zuma  have denied any wrongdoing.
 He  waved to reporters after meeting Ramaphosa at the presidentâs office in Cape Town  where the president also chaired routine meetings   his  spokesman said.
Members of the media are seen behind a bust of Nelson Mandela outside Parliament after it was announced that the State of the Nation address  due to be delivered by  President Jacob Zuma   has been postponed  in Cape Town  South Africa  February 6  2018. REUTERS/Sumaya Hisham
In a statement  the presidency denied claims by the South African Communist Party  a key ally of the ruling party  that  Zuma  was preparing to fire Ramaphosa as deputy president and replace  him  with ex-wife  Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma.
Facing a no-confidence motion in parliament set for Feb. 22   Zuma  has survived several attempts to oust  him  in the past. But this time around a significant part of the ANC wants  him  to step down well before  his  second term ends mid next year.
The opposition parties had demanded that the speech be postponed until  Zuma  was removed from the leadership.
The rand  which has tended to strengthen on signs that  Zuma  could step down before  his  second term as president ends next year  was firmer on Tuesday.
The ANCâs top six most powerful officials met  Zuma  late on Sunday at  his  official residence in Pretoria. There was no announcement of the outcome though sources said  he  had refused a demand to go.
 Zuma  has also resisted a call to go by Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini  the influential head of South Africaâs biggest ethnic group in the presidentâs home province of KwaZulu-Natal  according to BusinessDay newspaper.

SOLUTION: no

PROBLEM: Verify if the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Grier is Neutral . "I'm always down to listen to what could be a good deal for me and my family " said  Thomas Grier   44  standing behind the counter at Canna Can Help Inc.  a dispensary in the Central Valley community of Goshen.
Called a "bud tender  " Grier  recently waited on a steady flow of regular customers walking through the door to pick out their favorite strain.
 He  said so far  no unions have contacted  him .  Grier  gets along with  his  boss and said  he  doesn't want to pay union dues for help ironing out workplace disputes. But  he  hasn't discounted the possibility of joining.
After recently entering the marijuana industry  Los Angeles resident Richard Rodriguez said one sticky traffic stop three months ago converted  him  into a "hard core" Teamster.  He 'd never been in a union until this year.
Rodriguez said an officer pulled  him  over delivering a legal shipment of pot and detained  him  for 12 hours as  he  was accused of following too closely behind a semi-truck.

SOLUTION: no

PROBLEM: Verify if the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Chris Christie Trump is Positive . Donald Trump and  Chris Christie  campaign in 2016. (Photo: John Minchillo  AP)
I recall  Chris Christie’s  first interview with our editorial board after he won the 2009 election. We asked what had changed in his life now that he was governor of New Jersey.
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The governor’s fight against opioid abuse won him national praise. But the standing ovation really should go to the Christie who pushed for drug courts  treatment over incarceration and the near elimination of cash bail. No other governor could have done so much to right the scales of justice for minorities and low-income defendants. None of this is sexy to voters in national primaries  which makes these initiatives so much more important in judging all that was  Christie . He was capable of being a great leader.
Then came Superstorm Sandy— the event that made  Christie  a national figure even as it pretty much set in motion everything that destroyed him. It fed his ego. The national attention he received in his blue fleece telling someone to get off the beach  the bombast that was akin to a happy King Lear  not howling at the wind  but pushing the wind back. He seemed invincible.
After Sandy  Christie was a rising Republican star. Everything he did was now seen through a rosy prism. He was the Republican governor of a blue state getting things done. To be clear: New Jersey is neither blue nor red. It’s madras. Tom Kean  Christie Whitman — Republicans had won statewide before. New Jersey wanted a reformer in 2009 and  Christie  seemed to fit that bill.
The most telling moment from  Christie’s  final State of the State address this month was a sentence he ad-libbed. The prepared text read: “We ran to be a Governor who did not just mark time. We ran to win and to be a Governor of consequence.” What  Christie  said during the speech was  “I ran to win. I always ran to win. I ran to be a governor of consequence.”
That’s it in a nutshell. The fatal flaw. A chief executive consumed with winning who would assemble a team consumed with his winning. It explains more than anything how Bridgegate could come to pass  how a smart  politically savvy man like  Christie  could put so many of the wrong people in high-profile jobs. Did he know before the George Washington Bridge lane closures  during the lane closures or shortly after the lane closures that created a massive four-day traffic jam? At this point it matters less than that he always knew too many people on his team were capable of being punitive  petty and destructive in the cause of  Christie  winning.
 Christie  tried to minimize the scandal.  He  wasted millions of taxpayer dollars on a whitewash report prepared by high-priced lawyers.  He  bled NJ Transit dry.
 He  bullied.  He  baited. And just as Sandy had made  him  a star  Bridgegate made  him  a pariah. Not all at once. But by the time  he  left New Jersey to raise money for Republican governors across the nation and then to openly pursue the presidency   he  was already failing in New Jersey.
I once was as close to a Christie cheerleader as  he  could find in the New Jersey media. There was a time when I believed  he  was the real deal.  He  was funny  well informed and enjoyed a vigorous debate on issues — at least off the record.
The brilliance of  Christie  remains somewhere inside him  but he was not the greatest natural politician I will ever see. The greatest natural politician would never forget that he was entirely dependent on the charity of others — voters.  Christie  once told a young man at a town hall who asked how to get into politics that you first have to ask people for their votes. He said a candidate had to recognize that voters could choose anyone they wanted  that receiving a vote was a gift.
The governor forgot that lesson or  as his ratings tanked  decided it no longer mattered. He became more important than anything. It was not about New Jersey winning  but  Christie  winning.
Voters elected  Christie  to serve until Jan. 16  2018  but he checked out on Election Day 2013.

SOLUTION:
no