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{{Use South African English|date=July 2024}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
{{more citations needed|date=October 2018}}
{{Infobox settlement
| name                    = Badplaas
| other_name              = eManzana
| native_name             = eBhadini
| image_skyline           = File:Badplaas hot swimming pool.JPG
| image_caption           = The main [[swimming pool]] at Badplaas
| pushpin_map             = South Africa Mpumalanga#South Africa
| coordinates             = {{coord|25|57|14|S|30|34|00|E|region:ZA|display=inline,title}}
| subdivision_type        = Country
| subdivision_name        = [[South Africa]]
| subdivision_type1       = Province
| subdivision_name1       = [[Mpumalanga]]
| subdivision_type2       = District
| subdivision_name2       = [[Gert Sibande District Municipality|Gert Sibande]]
| subdivision_type3       = Municipality
| subdivision_name3       = [[Albert Luthuli Local Municipality|Albert Luthuli]]
| subdivision_type4       = Main Place
| established_title       = Established
| leader_party            = ANC
| leader_title            = Councillor
| area_footnotes          = <ref name="census2011">{{cite web |url=http://census2011.adrianfrith.com/place/860005 |title = Main Place Badplaas |work=Census 2011}}</ref>
| area_total_km2          = 37.97
| elevation_m             = 1110
| population_footnotes    = <ref name="census2011" />
| population_total        = 582
| population_as_of        = 2011
| population_density_km2  = auto
<!-- demographics (section 1) -->
| demographics_type1      = Racial makeup (2011)
| demographics1_footnotes = <ref name="census2011" />
| demographics1_title1    = [[Bantu peoples of South Africa|Black African]]
| demographics1_info1     = 62.5%
| demographics1_title2    = [[Coloureds|Coloured]]
| demographics1_info2     = 2.1%
| demographics1_title3    = [[Indian South African|Indian]]/[[Asian South African|Asian]]
| demographics1_info3     = 3.3%
| demographics1_title4    = [[White South African|White]]
| demographics1_info4     = 31.1%
| demographics1_title5    = Other
| demographics1_info5     = 1.0%
<!-- demographics (section 2) -->
| demographics_type2      = [[First language]]s (2011)
| demographics2_footnotes = <ref name="census2011" />
| demographics2_title1    = [[Swazi language|Swazi]]
| demographics2_info1     = 40.0%
| demographics2_title2    = [[Afrikaans]]
| demographics2_info2     = 31.7%
| demographics2_title3    = [[South African English|English]]
| demographics2_info3     = 12.8%
| demographics2_title4    = [[Zulu language|Zulu]]
| demographics2_info4     = 5.3%
| demographics2_title5    = Other
| demographics2_info5     = 10.2%
<!-- blank fields (section 2) -->
<!-- Other information -->
| timezone1               = [[South African Standard Time|SAST]]
| utc_offset1             = +2
| postal_code_type        = [[List of postal codes in South Africa|Postal code]] (street)
| postal_code             = 1190
| postal2_code_type       = [[Post-office box|PO box]]
| postal2_code            = 1190
| area_code_type          = [[Telephone numbers in South Africa|Area code]]
| area_code               = 017
}}
'''Badplaas''', current officially named '''eManzana''', is a small town on the [[R38 road]] in eastern [[Mpumalanga]], [[South Africa]]. The town covers a total area of 14.66 square metres per miles which is equal 37.96 KM squared of land. It was established in [[1876]] on the [[Seekoeispruit]], in the foothills of the Dlomodlomo Mountains (meaning "place of much thunder"),<ref>{{cite web | title =Badplaas (description) | url =https://www.travelground.com/accommodation-in/badplaas/about | website =TravelGround | access-date =22 October 2015 }}</ref> at the site of a [[sulphur spring]] that delivers ±30,000 litres of hot water (at ±50&nbsp;°C) per hour. Multiple sulphur springs are found around the area, including the one situated at Mkhingoma on the Mkhomazana river.

== History ==
[[Swazi people|Swazi]] tribesmen were the first to discover the spring and called it "eManzana", which means "healing waters".<ref name="Dict01">{{cite book | title=Dictionary of Southern African Place Names | publisher=Jonathan Ball Publishers | author1=Raper, Peter E. | author2=Moller, Lucie A. | author3=du Plessis, Theodorus L. | year=2014 | pages=1412 | isbn=9781868425501}}</ref> 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 due to its believed medicinal properties.

==Recreation==
The spring became very popular when gold was discovered in the De Kaap Valley (near [[Barberton, Mpumalanga|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.<ref name=Dict01/> It was proclaimed in December 1947.<ref name=Dict01/> The [[Protea Hotels|Protea Group]] managed this Aventura Resort for a time, but the resort has now been purchased by the Forever Resorts Group.<ref>{{cite web | title =Forever Resorts | url =http://www.foreverbadplaas.co.za/ | website =Forever Resorts | access-date =22 October 2015}}</ref>

==Schools==

* [[Sunduza Primary School]]
* [[Izithandani Primary School]] 
* [[Engabezweni Secondary School]]
* [[Laerskool Badplaas]]
* [[Mountain Valley College]]

==References==
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{{Wikivoyage|Badplaas}}
{{Gert Sibande District Municipality}}

[[Category:Populated places in the Albert Luthuli Local Municipality]]
[[Category:Populated places founded by Afrikaners]]
[[Category:Hot springs of South Africa]]
[[Category:Populated places established in 1876]]
[[Category:1876 establishments in Africa]]


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