The village can be accessed from Gwanda town via Guyu and Hwali, or from Beitbridge via Nottingham and Shashi Irrigation Scheme, although the latter road is in very poor condition.

Tuli was the first point at which the pioneer column, and many subsequent expeditions entered into Matabeleland and onward north to Salisbury (now Harare), the capital of Rhodesia as the country was then known.

Fort Tuli was also the launching point of the Jameson Raid into the South African Republic which contributed significantly to the start of the Second Boer War in the late 19th century.

[1] Tuli also forms the centre of a 10 miles (16 km) 'circle', the southern half of which stretches south of the Shashe River.

This preserved the grazing and helped to prevent the spread of rinderpest from the local cattle to the all-important oxen needed for the trek north.