Read the article below and answer ALL the questions that follow. Volkswagen frustrated by govt inaction on power crisis Volkswagen$$s top executive in South Africa said uncertainty about power supply is limiting the German carmaker$$s ability to expand in the country. While there$$s been a two$-$month hiatus in the power cuts that have plagued South Africa since $2008,$ no long$-$term solution has been presented to carmakers despite a tour of plants by Electricity Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa, Volkswagen$$s local head said. $$The overall power situation brings South Africa to an uncompetitive situation in the automotive industry,$$ Martina Biene, chairwoman and managing director of Volkswagen South Africa, said in an interview in Gqeberha, close to VW$$s factory. $$Isuzu and ourselves and the Ford engine plant, we are affected by load shedding,$$ she said, using a local term for power outages. The uncertainty over electricity supply, caused by the poor maintenance of the state power utility$$s coal$-$fired plants, increases the cost of running the facility compared with VW$$s more than $100$ sites across the world, making it hard to argue for additional investment, she said. There is a further risk of other downstream businesses such as car resellers closing their doors. $$My biggest opposition is $113$ other VW plants,$$ she said. While Biene welcomed the current lull in outages, she said the $165000-$car$-$per$-$year plant in Kariega, in the Eastern Cape province, had already spent R$130$ million on generators. The factory, which will soon become the company$$s sole producer globally of Polo hatchbacks thereby exporting its cards all over the world, needs $14$ megawatts of power to run apart from local raw material suppliers which also rely on electricity. The visit by the minister had yielded no results despite a discussion on a number of potential solutions, she said. Calls to the minister$$s spokespeople and emails to his office by Bloomberg weren$$t answered. Power is $$our biggest obstacle,$$ Biene said in an earlier speech. $$He came, we fed him well, it's great people are accessible but there is no outcome.$$

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QUESTION $1(20$ Marks$)$ Using examples, discuss $$and$$ explore the concept of core business risks in relation to VW$,$ and clearly assess the types of risks presented in the article above.

QUESTION $2(20$ Marks$)$ Discuss and explore $$the various types of financial risks that VW may be exposed to$,$ and based on the article, assess which two $(2)$ types of financial risks are most likely to materialise.