The series Applications contains correspondence from parties and organisations agreeing to participate, and requesting representation in the Multi-Party Negotiating Forum and  Multi-Party Negotiating Process. Additionally, a body of correspondence containing complaints, submissions, and requests for further information on the process from the parties, organisations and the general public can be found here.  

The Constitutional Committee was responsible for creating refined working drafts of the constitution and incorporating amendments adopted by the Constitutional Assembly. The Constitutional Committee acted as both a negotiating forum and a driving body of the Constitutional Assembly.

The series Constitutional Committee contains the working documents of the Constitutional Committee, audio recordings of Constitutional Committee meetings and reports submitted to it from all other structures of the Constitutional Assembly. Drafts bills, amendments, and reports on contentious issues and debates can be found in this series.

As a negotiating body the Constitutional Committee created sub-committees and ad hoc committees to assist in negotiating and drafting. Primary among these was the Constitutional Committee Sub-committee which dealt with substantive issues that the Constitutional Committee was unable to process because of time constraints.

As the driving body of the constitution-making process, it supervised the establishment of the theme committees and related structures such as technical committees, formed the Management Committee, and outlined the work plan for the Constitutional Assembly and its structures.

The series CODESA 2 contains all meetings post CODESA 1 and preparatory to CODESA 2 and the associated plenary documents.

The Constitutional Committee Sub-committee was created by and reported directly to the Constitutional Committee. The Sub-committee was created to deal with substantive issues that the Constitutional Committee was unable to process because of time constraints. These issues largely relate to specific formulations - of principle previously agreed to - into the constitutional text. Its tasks included facilitating drafting, negotiating and the formation of further sub-committees as required.

The series Constitutional Committee Sub-committee contains the working documents of the committee, draft formulations and audio recordings of their meetings.

The series Technical Committees is divided into eight units of description. The first seven correspond to the themes of the technical committees and are titled as such, they are:

• Technical Committee on Violence
• Technical Committee on Constitutional Issues
• Technical Committee on Fundamental Rights during the Transition
• Technical Committee on Independent Election Commission
• Technical Committee on Independent Media Commission and the Independent Telecommunications Authority
• Technical Committee on Repeal and Free Political Activity
• Technical Committee on Transitional Executive Council
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  The eighth unit of description Technical Committees: General contains documents related to the management of technical committees.

The Negotiating Council established the seven technical committees. Technical committees were instruments of the Negotiating Council for the production of systematic documentation to facilitate discussions and negotiations in the Negotiating Council. They were not negotiating bodies. They largely functioned to advise and formulate specific texts, which were then submitted to the Negotiating Council for review.

Depending on the outcome of the review, formulations were either passed on to the Negotiating Forum or returned to the technical committees for refinement. The Planning Committee was tasked with managing and coordinating the work of the technical committees.

The series Miscellaneous contains material in three groups covering the 1994 election process, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa, and a portable exhibition on the life of Nelson Mandela.

The Post-CODESA 2 phase was short-lived. Despite the establishment of several Sub-committees and Task Groups, and the allocation of tasks, all CODESA meetings were suspended at the end of June 1992. This decision was made after a general request for the suspension of meetings, due to the unstable political situation in the country at that stage.

The series Planning Committee contains the working documents of the Planning Committee and the Sub-committee of the Facilitating Committee (as it was briefly known). In addition to its own minutes and delegation packs; reports and proposals from other bodies of the Multi-Party Negotiating Process (MPNP) and the Planning Committee Sub-committee can be found here. 

The Planning Committee was made up of ten members of the Negotiating Council and worked under the directives and supervision of it. The Planning Committee formed the Planning Committee Sub-committee to assist in logistic and co-ordinating processes of the MPNP. The Planning Committee submitted recommendations on procedural and substantive issues for negotiation to the Negotiating Council but was not itself mandated to take any final decisions. 

The Planning Committee formulated the terms of reference for the negotiating bodies such as the Negotiating Council, Negotiating Forum and commissions. It also proposed duties for the technical committees, received reports from technical committees, and had the mandate to request further investigation into areas that it deemed required it.