Marula

Marula is a small village and railway station on the railway line and the A7 road between Bulawayo and Plumtree, located 75 kilometres from Bulawayo. Because of its location on the railway line, Marula started as a social and religious centre for the surrounding farms in the early colonial period, following the eviction of the Kalanga people from the area by the British South Africa Company. The village's history therefore combines the rail corridor to the Botswana border with the displacement of the Kalanga carried out by the British South Africa Company.