Complex sentence: He later gained country-wide notoriety when he founded the band Fokofpolisiekar in 2003, the band was initially started as a joke to shock the widely conservative Afrikaans community.
Split into simpler sentences: He later gained country-wide notoriety when he founded the band Fokofpolisiekar in 2003. The band was initially started as a joke to shock the widely conservative Afrikaans community.