Complex sentence: Born in Johannesburg, Boshoff trained as a teacher at the Johannesburg College of Art before pursuing a diploma in fine art, with an emphasis on printmaking, in 1980; he received a master's degree in sculpture from Technikon Witwatersrand in 1984.
Split into simpler sentences: Born in Johannesburg, Boshoff trained as a teacher at the Johannesburg College of Art before pursuing a diploma in fine art, with an emphasis on printmaking, in 1980. He received a master's degree in sculpture from Technikon Witwatersrand in 1984.