Bela-Bela (Tswana/Pedi for "the pot that boils")[2] - formerly known as Warmbaths, Afrikaans: Warmbad[3]- is a town in the Limpopo Province of South Africa.

[4] The main hot springs holiday resort (previously run by state-owned company Aventura, formerly called Overvaal[5])[6] in the town is still branded Warmbaths.

[8] The Voortrekker Carl Van Heerden established the first Boer farm in what is now Bela-Bela and called it Het Bad.

In 1873, President Burgers' Transvaal government bought the land and established a resort called Hartingsburg after the prominent Dutch biologist Pieter Harting.

[3] The British occupied the town during the Anglo-Boer War, and renamed the post office Warm Baths in 1903, and proclaimed the boundaries of Warmbaths to be the entire farm of Het Bad.