Hofmeyr is a small Karoo town in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa, 20 km west of the Bamboesberg mountain range.

According to the 2011 census, the population of Hofmeyr proper is about 326 persons and the neighbouring township of Luxolweni is about 3354.

In former times it lay at the centre of a flourishing sheep-farming district and managed some salt pans 10 km to its west.

To avoid confusion with the Gauteng area of Maraisburg it was renamed Hofmeyr in 1911 [2] in honour of Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr (Onze Jan),[3] a campaigner for the equal treatment of Afrikaans and English and a prominent figure in the Eerste Taalbeweging.

(1994 mayor of hofmeyr, eastern cape was khaya sydwell nohatala) He obtained a diploma i local government management in the university of Fort hare)