Location
Boshof/Seretse/Kareehof is the administrative seat of the Tokologo Local Municipality. The town is located approximately 124km to the west of Bloemfontein and 53km to the east of Kimberley, along the R64 (old Bloemfontein/Kimberley Road). The town comprises of three main areas, namely Boshof, Kareehof and Seretse. Temperature in the area varies from -5 to 38 degrees Celsius and rainfall averages 450 mm per annum.

History
The town was founded in 1855 on the farm Van Wyksvlei and it was named after the 2nd President of the Free State Republic, Jacobus Boshof. It was granted municipality status in 1872.

Well-known Personalities

Sol Plaatje
Solomon Tsekisho Plaatje, one of the founder members of the African National Congress in 1912, was born in Boshof in 1876. Plaatje was a politician, journalist, human rights campaigner, novelist and translator at the turn of the 19th century and is widely regarded as one of the most gifted and versatile black South Africans of his generation. He was a great linguist, speaking English, Afrikaans, Dutch, German, French, Sotho, Zulu, and Xhosa. Plaatje was the first black South African to publish a novel in English (Mhudi) and to translate Shakespeare plays into Setswana. He was also one of the most influential of early African newspaper editors and the first person ever to record Nkosi Sikelele i Africa.

Dirk du Toit
The former Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Land Affairs, Dirk du Toit, was born in Boshof on 19 September 1943. He matriculated from the Boshof High School and obtained his LLB-degree (cum laude) from the University of the Free State. He joined the ANC after the unbanning of the ANC and served as a Regional Executive Committee member of the ANC’s Southern Free State region. He was elected as a Member of Parliament following the 1994 general elections and was appointed as Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Land Affairs in 1999 and continued in this position until his retirement in 2009. He passed away on 1 June 2009.

Economy
Most commercial and industrial activities are situated in Boshof itself. Primary activities in Boshof are restricted to agriculture, which includes livestock farming, game farming and crop farming. The commercial sector mainly consists of service provision to the agricultural community in the rural hinterland. Industrial activities in Boshof include an abattoir, two scrap yards, a bottling company, engineering works and steelworks. There are approximately 27 hunting farms in the Boshof district that constitute most of the tourism attraction in the area.