Clocolan

Clocolan
Clocolan Clocolan Clocolan  Clocolan shown within Free State
Coordinates: 28°54′50″S 27°34′01″E / 28.91389°S 27.56694°ECoordinates: 28°54′50″S 27°34′01″E / 28.91389°S 27.56694°E
Country	South Africa
Province	Free State
District	Thabo Mofutsanyane
Municipality	Setsoto
Established	1907
Area[1]
• Total	19.0 km^2 (7.3 sq mi)
Population (2011)[1]
• Total	17,602
• Density	930/km^2 (2,400/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011)[1]
• Black African	95.7%
• Coloured	0.3%
• Indian/Asian	0.3%
• White	3.6%
• Other	0.1%
First languages (2011)[1]
• Sotho	86.4%
• English	5.3%
• Afrikaans	5.2%
• Sign language	1.8%
• Other	1.3%
Postal code (street)	9735
PO box	9735
Area code	051

Clocolan, established in 1906, is a small town in the Free State province of South Africa. The Basotho called the place Hlohlolwane (Hlohla-o-lwane, "get up and fight"). New inhabitants mispronounced the name and called it Clocolan.

Town west of Prynn’s Berg, and some 166km north-east of Bloemfontein. Laid out on the farms Harold and Rienzi in 1906, it became a municipality in 1910. The name is of Sotho origin, said to be derived from hlohloloane, ‘bump and fight’, from an incident in which the bumping over of a basket filled with wheat led to a fight; or ‘pressed in the mountains’.^[2]

References

1. Sum of the Main Places Hlohlolwane and Clocolan from Census 2011.
2. "Dictionary of Southern African Place Names (Public Domain)". Human Science Research Council. p. 118.