Sigidi village residents on the Wild Coast have resorted to court in a bid to stop a school principal from developing a piece of land close to the pristine Mzamba beach and tidal river which they say forms part of a coastal conservation area protected by law. In court papers it is alleged that several women, including well-known Amadiba Crisis Committee activist Nonhle Mbuthuma, who sought to question the development on communal land in April, were hit by a group of men with knobkerries.