Complex sentence: On of Burgers' plans was to build a railway linking the Transvaal to the sea and in 1875 he traveled to Europe in to raise funds but this was thwart by the Pedi chief Sekhukhune whose lands lay in the path of the proposed railway.
Split into simpler sentences: On of Burgers' plans was to build a railway linking the Transvaal to the sea and in 1875 he traveled to Europe to raise funds. His plans were thwarted by the Pedi chief Sekhukhune, however, whose lands lay in the path of the proposed railway.