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The holiday and health resort of badplaas has a history dating back to before 1870's. The Swazis knew the area as eManzana (healing waters). The paramount chief of the Swazis presented the springs to Jacob de Clerq, a hunter who traded with the Swazi people living in the valley of the Komati river.
Over time the spring became well known with Europeans, specially when gold was discovered near Barberton. Soon a tent town would appear during the winter month and as time passed they would be replaced by a few shacks, a tent boarding house (for a short while) and later the Transvaal government erected a few brick rondavels and eventually a hotel. The Transvaal government claimed the spring in 1893 to develop a health resort for public use.
Today the medicinal water is pumped into a number of private and public pools. The largest is the previously government owned resort, now in private hands.
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