Bohlokong is a black township near the city of Bethlehem in the eastern region of the Free State province of South Africa.
Bohlokong township itself is situated in the north eastern corner of Bethlehem, north of Thorisong township and close to the R26 Provincial Route.
Bohlokong is part of the Dihlabeng Local Municipality in the Thabo Mofutsanyana District of the Free State province.
The Basotho named the township Bohlokong, a Sesotho word. It named after the hloko/bohloko grass found in the area Diheteropogon filifolius.
Alternatively, the name Bohlokong also means “place of sorrow”.
The township has no trees, but rather some decent, small houses and a miserable squatter camp, where some people live in shacks, and have no water or electricity.
There are piles of rubbish on the ground, and stinking, stagnant pools of water.
Black people were once confined to Bohlokong by law. Today they are largely confined there by poverty.
