Complex sentence: Ras Erasmus lives in Pretoria, South Africa and he wrote to Ellen DeGeneres for about eight years and he understands that she is extremely busy therfore will do basically anything to get to meet her.
Split into simpler sentences: Ras Erasmus lives in Pretoria, South Africa and he wrote to Ellen DeGeneres for about eight years now. He understands that she is extremely busy and will do basically anything to get to meet her.