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About Badplaas, Mpumalanga, South Africa

Badplaas is a small town, established in 1876, and is located on the Seekoeispruit in the foothills of the Dhlumudhlumu Mountains (Place of Much Thunder) where a sulphur spring delivers ±30 000L of hot water (@±50°C) per hour.

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From a town planning perspective, Badplaas is truly unique in that is does not have a reason for its location apart from its proximity to the major population centre.

It boasts large industrial areas and has now become a part of the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality, which includes other towns such as Germiston, Bedfordview and Edenvale.

There are a variety of shopping centres, libraries, clinics, hospitals and entertainment facilities available here.

The construction of the Badplaas Boulevard was a major development that commenced towards the late 1980’s and early 1990’s with the aim of converting a section of Voortrekker Road that runs past the Badplaas City Shopping Mall, into a pedestrian friendly zone.

The town's initial centre of development was in the area now known as Badplaas North or ‘Old’ Badplaas.

Badplaas has an approximate elevation of 1,570m above sea level.

History of Badplaas

Swazi tribesmen were the first to discover the spring and called it ‘Emanzana’ meaning Healing Waters. It has been said that in about 1876 the Swazi Chief presented this spring, in gratitude, to a hunter - Jacob de Clerq - who subsequently built a store nearby and developed the spring to allow for visitors’ use because of its medicinal properties. History does not tell us why the Swazi chief gave the spring to de Clerq. The spring became very popular when gold was discovered in the De Kaap Valley (near Barberton), prospectors would visit there on weekends to get away from their strenuous work of digging for gold. On 6 November 1893 the government claimed the springs to develop a health resort for public use in perpetuity, it was proclaimed in December 1947. The Protea Group managed this Aventura Resort for a time, but the resort has now been purchased by the Forever Resorts Group.

Towns and Suburbs of the Mpumalanga province of South Africa

Badplaas , Belfast , Dullstroom , Ermelo , Graskop , Groblersdal , Hazyview , Komatipoort , Lydenburg , Machadodorp , Malelane , Middelburg , Nelspruit , Ohrigstad , Piet Retief , Pilgrim's Rest , Sabie , Sabi Sands , Secunda , Skukuza , Schoemanskloof , Standerton , Stoffberg , White River , Villiers , Witbank

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