Education and Department of Soil Science and Agricultural Engineering, University of Zimbabwe, traces the prominence of the vice to the land reform programme. This means that poachers and new farmers are major drivers of these uncontrollable infernos. The study noted that prior to the land reform programme commercial farmers occupied about 16 million hectares, resettlement farmers 3,6m ha, small-scale commercial farmers 1,4m ha and State farms 0,1m ha. “In 2000, the Government initiated a land reform programme to acquire 12,4m ha of the 16m ha in large-scale agriculture to create two new categories of farming subsectors, namely A1 and A2 farms. A total of 4,1m ha model A1 farms (average 5 ha), 3,5m ha model A2 farms (average, 318 ha per farmer) were established under the land reform programme. “However, of late there has been an increase in the incidences of uncontrolled veld fires which have inflicted substantial damage to agricultural land, national parks, indigenous forests, commercial timber plantations, rangelands and communal grazing areas. The recent increase in fire incidences has been attributed to newly resettled smallholder farmers. “The fast track land reform programme, which started in 2000, resulted in an upsurge in veld fire incidents due to poor land clearing methods by the more than 300 000 resettled small holder farmers,” noted the study published in 2013. The major drivers include fires used for hunting, improving grazing, early burning or back burning to reduce the fuel load and negative impact of wild fires, creation of fire breaks, arson and smoking out bees during harvesting of wild honey. Other deliberate causes include cooking, waste dumps, and carelessness such as throwing out lit cigarettes, fires to flush out game, fires to please the rain gods particularly when there is an impending drought and safari hunters who deliberately start or leave campfires unextinguished.