B. A teacher travels each year to visit family in South Africa. I mean, honestly, who cares? That's nice of her, but it won't really get the point across if Greg wants people to not only hear his speech but live it as well.
I hope this helps :)
I would say this is a complex sentence. Because it has one independent clause(their more aggressive style did not pay of.) and two dependent clauses.
B) to refer to a story that audiences are familiar with