| Quality and indicators of quality in South African education: a critical appraisal S Motala International Journal of Educational Development 21 (1), 61-78, 2001 | 106 | 2001 |
| Physical access to schooling in South Africa: mapping dropout, repetition and age‐grade progression in two districts S Motala, V Dieltiens, Y Sayed Comparative education 45 (2), 251-263, 2009 | 100 | 2009 |
| Education resourcing in post-apartheid South Africa: The impact of finance equity reforms in public schooling S Motala Perspectives in Education 24 (2), 79-93, 2006 | 93 | 2006 |
| South African education policy review: 1993-2000 L Chisholm, S Motala, S Vally Heinemann, 2003 | 89 | 2003 |
| In search of the'new normal': Reflections on teaching and learning during Covid-19 in a South African university S Motala, K Menon Southern African Review of Education with Education with Production 26 (1 …, 2020 | 72 | 2020 |
| Equity and ‘no fee’schools in South Africa: Challenges and prospects Y Sayed, S Motala Social Policy & Administration 46 (6), 672-687, 2012 | 69 | 2012 |
| People’s education: From people’s power to Tirisano S Motala, S Vally na, 1948 | 69 | 1948 |
| Educational de/centralisation and the quest for equity, democracy and quality SG Lewis, S Motala Changing Class, 115, 2004 | 63 | 2004 |
| Surviving the system-a critical appraisal of some conventional wisdoms in primary education in South Africa S Motala Comparative education 31 (2), 161-180, 1995 | 60 | 1995 |
| Educational access in South Africa S Motala Journal of educational studies 2011 (si-1), 84-103, 2011 | 44 | 2011 |
| Educational access in South Africa S Motala Journal of educational studies 2011 (si-1), 84-103, 2011 | 44 | 2011 |
| Decolonising initial teacher education in South African universities: More than an event Y Sayed, S Motala, N Hoffman Journal of Education (University of KwaZulu-Natal), 59-91, 2017 | 43 | 2017 |
| Privatising public schooling in post‐apartheid South Africa–equity considerations S Motala Compare 39 (2), 185-202, 2009 | 41 | 2009 |
| Educational access in South Africa: Country analytic report S Motala, V Dieltiens, N Carrim, P Kgobe, G Moyo, S Rembe University of Sussex—Consortium for Research on Educational Access …, 2007 | 37 | 2007 |
| Getting in and staying there: Exclusion and inclusion in South African schools Y Sayed, S Motala Southern African Review of Education with Education with Production 18 (2 …, 2012 | 33 | 2012 |
| Educational Access in South Africa. Country Analytic Review. S Motala, V Dieltens, N Carrim, P Kgobe, G Moyo, S Rembe Online Submission, 2007 | 27 | 2007 |
| Educational funding and equity in South African schools S Motala, D Carel South African schooling: The enigma of inequality, 67-85, 2019 | 23 | 2019 |
| Introduction-Part III Achieving'free education'for the poor-a realisable goal in 2018? S Motala Journal of Education (University of KwaZulu-Natal), 15-29, 2017 | 23 | 2017 |
| From policy to implementation: Ongoing challenges and constraints S Motala Wits EPU Quarterly Review of Education and Training 5 (1), 15-22, 1997 | 23 | 1997 |
| Governance and finance in the South African schooling system: the first decade of democracy S Motala, J Pampallis Centre for Education Policy Development, 2005 | 22 | 2005 |
