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| Badplaas means “bath farm” in Afrikaans and is a health resort located in the valley of the Seekoeispruit (“hippo creek”). The holiday and health resort has been built around a sulphur spring which bubbles warm water (50 oC) out the ground at a rate of 30 000 litres per hour. In 1876 the Swazi chief presented the spring as a gift to a white trader named Jacob de Clercq who built a store near the spring. The medicinal properties of the spring at Badplaas became well known following the discovery of gold in the De Kaap Valley.
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