| The age of commodity: Water privatization in Southern Africa DA McDonald, G Ruiters Earthscan, 2005 | 357 | 2005 |
| The murky waters of the second wave of neoliberalism: corporatization as a service delivery model in Cape Town L Smith Geoforum 35 (3), 375-393, 2004 | 257 | 2004 |
| Access to water for the urban poor in Cape Town: where equity meets cost recovery L Smith, S Hanson Urban studies 40 (8), 1517-1548, 2003 | 178 | 2003 |
| Privatising Cape Town: From apartheid to neo-liberalism in the mother city DA McDonald, L Smith Urban studies 41 (8), 1461-1484, 2004 | 150 | 2004 |
| Water security in South Africa M Muller, B Schreiner, L Smith, B van Koppen, H Sally, M Aliber, ... Development Planning Division. Working Paper Series 12, 2009 | 133 | 2009 |
| Privatizing Cape Town: Service delivery and policy reforms since 1996 DA McDonald, L Smith Occasional papers series/Queen's University, Municipal Services Project; no. 7, 2002 | 77 | 2002 |
| The emergence of government evaluation systems in Africa: The case of Benin, Uganda and South Africa I Goldman, A Byamugisha, A Gounou, LR Smith, S Ntakumba, T Lubanga, ... African Evaluation Journal 6 (1), 1-11, 2018 | 58 | 2018 |
| THE URBAN POLITICAL ECOLOGY OF WATER IN CAPE TOWN. L Smith Urban forum 12 (2), 2001 | 52 | 2001 |
| Neither public nor private: Unpacking the Johannesburg water corporatization model L Smith UNRISD, 2006 | 46 | 2006 |
| Power and the hierarchy of knowledge: A review of a decade of the World Bank’s relationship with South Africa L Smith Geoforum 39 (1), 236-251, 2008 | 41 | 2008 |
| The public/private conundrum of urban water L Smith, G Ruiters In the Nature of Cities, 183, 2006 | 40 | 2006 |
| Citizen vs. customer: Different approaches to public participation in service delivery in Cape Town L Smith, A Vawda Urban Forum 14 (1), 26-52, 2003 | 39 | 2003 |
| The power of politics: the performance of the South African Revenue Service and some of its implications L Smith Centre for Policy Studies, 2003 | 34 | 2003 |
| The limits to public participation in strengthening public accountability: a reflection on the ‘Citizens’ Voice’initiative in South Africa L Smith Journal of Asian and African Studies 46 (5), 504-517, 2011 | 31 | 2011 |
| Evaluation–Evaluating the national evaluation system in South Africa: What has been achieved in the first 5 years? A Griessel, S Dumisa, Z Ishmail, C Adams, C Waller, J Robertsen, ... African Evaluation Journal 7 (1), 1-11, 2019 | 25 | 2019 |
| Testing the limits of market-based solutions to the delivery of essential services: the Nelspruit Water Concession L Smith, S Mottiar, F White (No Title), 2003 | 19 | 2003 |
| The urban political ecology of water in Cape Town, South Africa L Smith | 18 | 2002 |
| Municipal compliance with water services policy: A challenge for water security L Smith Development Planning Division, Development Bank of Southern Africa, 2009 | 17 | 2009 |
| Scorpion sting producting severe muscular paralysis-a case report WA Smith, LR, Potgieter, PD & Chappell South African Medical Journal 64 (2), 69-70, 1983 | 17 | 1983 |
| Privatizing Cape Town D McDonald, L Smith Occasional Papers 7, 2002 | 15 | 2002 |
