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  • noun industrial city in southwestern Zimbabwe

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Examples

  • The territory around Bulawayo is also devoted chiefly to cattle-raising, and wheat, cotton and maize are becoming more important crops each successive year.

    Canadian Trade Mission Trip to South Africa 1947

  • Every few weeks, JP Kumalo, a 43-year old Zimbabwean trader travels from the southwestern Zimbabwean town of Bulawayo, which is far closer to the

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2007

  • A similar exercise will be carried out in the second largest city of Bulawayo, which is another MDC stronghold, as well as other cities, the paper said.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2007

  • Thirty-five of the women activists began their march more than a week ago to the capital Harare from the southern city of Bulawayo, which is 440 kilometres (265 miles) from Harare.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2004

  • I mean, there was a tournament going on, the business community in Bulawayo, which is the most prosperous city perhaps in Zimbabwe, not that that's saying anything.

    CNN Transcript Jan 17, 2003 2003

  • The "Place of Slaughter," as the Zulu word Bulawayo is interpreted, was founded about 1838 by Lobengula's father, Mosilikatze, some distance south of the present town, and continued to be the royal residence till its occupation by the British South Africa Company's forces in November 1893, when a new town was founded.

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various

  • Organisers admitted the work stoppage, called Monday, had largely failed on the first day in Harare, but said it had received better responses in other cities such as Bulawayo and Mutare.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2002

  • Democratic Republic of Congo, Nacala on the northern Mozambique coast and Cape Town, and junctions such as Bulawayo, De Aar and

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2000

  • "Everyone knows that I own York House in Bulawayo which is of higher value.

    AllAfrica News: Latest 2010

  • The Daily News came into being after decades of domination by the pro ZANU-PF Zimbabwe Newspapers group, which produced two dailies, the Herald in Harare and the Chronicle in second city Bulawayo.

    Zimbabwe’s Popular Newspaper Returns After Seven Years 2011

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