Bulawayo
the principal town and chief commercial center of Matabeleland, in southern Rhodesia, south Africa . It is connected by railroad with Cape Town and other parts of south Africa, to which point the railroad from Cape Town was completed in 1897, a total distance of 1,360 miles. The place has a white population of about 5,000; several hotels, several hotels , good business blocks and residences, and is rapidly growing in size and importance.