The Cape High Court is expected to hear an application on Tuesday for the eviction of more than 400 xenophobia refugees from a site in Strandfontein, the SABC reported.

The refugees, who are being accommodated at the Blue Waters safety site, was part of thousands of foreigners who were displaced during a spate of xenophobic violence last year.

They have refused to return to their communities and have called for repatriation to their home countries.

But the United Nations High Commission for Refugees has said it cannot repatriate refugees to war-torn countries.

The application will be brought by the City of Cape Town which said it was difficult to control crime at the site.

More than 60 people were killed countrywide in the xenophobic attacks last May.