The Thabo Mofutsanyana District Municipality has constitutionally prescribed framework functions and responsibilities. These are described below in terms of section 83; read in conjunction with the requirements of sections 84 and 88 of the Municipal Systems Act, 1998. These responsibilities are as follows:

Municipal Structures Act, Section 83.

• A municipality has the functions and powers assigned to it in terms of sections156 and 229 of the Constitution.
• The functions and powers referred to in subsection (1) must be divided in the case of a district municipality and the local municipalities within the area of the district municipality, as set out in this Chapter.
• (3) A district municipality must seek to achieve the integrated, sustainable and equitable social and economic development of its area as a whole by:

Ensuring integrated development planning for the district as a whole;

• Promoting bulk infrastructural development and services for the district as a whole; building the capacity of local municipalities in its area to perform their functions and exercisetheir powers where such capacity is lacking; and promoting the equitable distribution of resources between the local municipalities in its are to ensure appropriate levels of municipal services within the area.