Coal hunters have encircled Africa’s oldest game reserve to extract the rich ‘black gold’ deposits that fuel the furnaces of industry and the global climate crisis. The latest prospectors include former Banyana Banyana physician Dr Rodney Mokoka and his wife Whitney, along with Benedict ‘Benny’ Buthelezi, a Johannesburg-based advocate who has provided legal defence skills to former president Jacob Zuma and former SAA board chair Dudu Myeni.