“South Africa’s most important risks” are‚ according to Agri SA’s analysis‚ “the national drought”‚ “violent crimes…reaching epidemic proportions” and “government’s divisive statements”‚ particularly on land. President Johannes Moller described the country as “a tinderbox at the moment”‚ and urged South African to “to be more patient‚ tolerant‚ proud and co-operative to make this work”.Moller said the drought “presents the biggest natural disaster in 30 years‚ with job losses‚ further economic decline and social instability being core to this reality”.“Poverty and food insecurity present an actual desperate condition for all South Africans‚” he said.On crime‚ Moller said that “government cannot stand by and watch as rural communities‚ farmers and farmworkers are being plunged into violence at unacceptable levels”.“Something has to give if the current crime situation continues‚” he added.Moller also said that “unqualified statements that refer to vast tracts of land that were stolen by farmers” were only “further polarising our communities‚ and as South Africans this does not assist in uniting our people”.“Now is not the time to panic and to make strategic blunders; now is the time to focus‚ to be calm‚ to work together as South Africans and to build the economy‚” he said...