Overview
- Police said security forces have been deployed, the situation is under control, and normal traffic has been restored.
- Reports describe years of friction over curbs on land buyers and claims of unauthorized structures in and around Moava, according to the Chakhroma Public Organisation.
- CPO leaders say a group of about 70–80 people blocked their visit, with stone-pelting injuring the Extra Assistant Commissioner of Medziphema, a police constable and roughly 24 youths.
- Officials said several hundred youths later entered the village, allegedly set some houses on fire and damaged vehicles during the retaliation.
- The CPO cites a December 2 notice with a December 25 deadline to remove alleged encroachments, while the village headman says he alerted authorities but police were outnumbered as properties were torched.