Investment law and South Africa’s duty to combat xenophobic attacks on migrant-owned spaza shops

IF 0.8 Q3 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
L. Koen
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ABSTRACT In recent years there have been a growing number of attacks on foreign-owned shops in South Africa. Shop owners report a lack of police action in protecting their property from looting during these attacks. This article explores the extent to which investment law, both international and domestic, imposes an obligation on the state to protect foreign-owned property from such looting. The article specifically engages with criticism levelled at South Africa’s Protection of Investment Act and argues that some scholars have misinterpreted the extent of the physical security obligation in the act. The article also reflects on the trend whereby investment tribunals increasingly consider the state’s available resources and the context in which the attack occurred in determining a potential breach of investment law. It argues that the international community’s condemnation of xenophobia provides an important context for reviewing the state’s obligation to protect foreign-owned spaza shops from such attacks.
投资法和南非打击针对移民经营的spaza商店的仇外袭击的责任
近年来,南非发生了越来越多针对外资商店的袭击事件。店主报告说,在这些袭击中,警察没有采取行动保护他们的财产不受抢劫。本文探讨了国际和国内投资法在多大程度上规定了国家保护外资财产免受此类掠夺的义务。这篇文章特别关注了对南非《投资保护法》(Protection of Investment Act)的批评,并认为一些学者误解了该法中人身安全义务的范围。本文还反映了一种趋势,即投资法庭在确定潜在的违反投资法行为时,越来越多地考虑国家的可用资源和攻击发生的背景。它认为,国际社会对仇外心理的谴责提供了一个重要的背景,以审查国家保护外国拥有的spaza商店免受此类攻击的义务。
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