Abstract:
The examination of certain legal aspects of xenophobia has shown that the law and its
judicial interpretation do on the one hand server to safeguard against xenophobia and to
eliminate it where it still prevails, on the other hand they can however serve to entrench
it1. It is believed that in future, South African courts will continue to be proactive in the
elimination of xenophobic tendencies wherever they may be encountered in the legal
context and that law reform will eradicate laws which generate the impression that they
are xenophobically motivated.
