Document: Food Security in South Africa: Perceptions of the Role of Local Government

This paper examines the role that local government might play in promoting food security for people living with HIV in a democratic governance context. It examines local government’s role in food security through interviews with local councillors in the Tshwane area. Councillors are representatives of communities and have knowledge of both institutional mandates and community needs. Six councillors agreed to be interviewed for this research and a member of a provincial legislature added some views based on experience from years as a councillor. Of the six councillors interviewed, four were in their third terms. Their input is therefore solidly based on experience of the needs in communities.