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Michelle Faul’s article “What Life Was Like In South Africa During Apartheid” was published in 2013 on the website of the American-based media, Business Insider. At the time, she was writing as a member of The Associated Press, a multinational, non-profit news agency also based in the US.

Consequently, the nature of the two forms of media suggests that the intended readers of the text are English-speaking people everywhere and Americans. Furthermore, as Business Insider mainly covers financial and business news, we can assume that the intended readership is also educated.

The fact that Faul discusses the way black people and mixed-race people were discriminated against during the apartheid regime in South Africa, as well as the fact that she mentions Nelson Mandela a few times, suggests that...