Clocolan, officially renamed Hlohlolwane,[2] was established in 1906, is a small town in the Free State Province of South Africa.

Motebang invited the neighbouring Baphuthi Zulu clan to assist his people stacking corn baskets after a successful harvest.

As the Boers engaged in settled agriculture the formal town of Clocolan was built as a consequence of the social and economic systems coming to the area.

By the late 1800's increasing western civilization was making its mark and trading posts , schools and churches were built with a railway line laid to the town in 1907.

Due to its location, the town trades with Lesotho, Southern parts of the Free State, Kwa-Zulu Natal and the Cape.

[6] The eastern Free State cherry industry originated in the Clocolan district where the first trees were planted by Henry Pickstone in 1904 on the farm Platkop.