evidence: He became embroiled in a controversy over the annexation of the territory of Ingwavuma and carried out the government's policy of forced removals of communities, including the celebrated case of the Mogopa people, who were ousted from their traditional home. Koornhof signed the removal order. When a court reversed the order, another department closely associated with Koornhof's expropriated the land under a different law. Six years after the Mogopa were uprooted, the high court of South Africa gave them permission to return to their land. By that time Koornhof was in Washington.