| Managing industrial knowledge: creation, transfer and utilization I Nonaka, DJ Teece Sage, 2000 | 786 | 2000 |
| Quality and indicators of quality in South African education: a critical appraisal S Motala International Journal of Educational Development 21 (1), 61-78, 2001 | 99 | 2001 |
| 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 | 88 | 2006 |
| 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 | 84 | 2009 |
| South African education policy review: 1993-2000 L Chisholm, S Motala, S Vally Heinemann, 2003 | 80 | 2003 |
| People’s education: From people’s power to Tirisano S Motala, S Vally na, 1948 | 66 | 1948 |
| Educational de/centralisation and the quest for equity, democracy and quality SG Lewis, S Motala Changing Class, 115, 2004 | 57 | 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 | 57 | 1995 |
| Equity and ‘no fee’schools in South Africa: Challenges and prospects Y Sayed, S Motala Social Policy & Administration 46 (6), 672-687, 2012 | 55 | 2012 |
| Educational access in South Africa S Motala Journal of Educational Studies 2011 (Special issue 1), 84-103, 2011 | 41 | 2011 |
| Educational access in South Africa S Motala Journal of Educational Studies 2011 (Special issue 1), 84-103, 2011 | 41 | 2011 |
| Privatising public schooling in post‐apartheid South Africa–equity considerations S Motala Compare 39 (2), 185-202, 2009 | 38 | 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 | 36 | 2007 |
| Getting in and staying there: Exclusion and inclusion in South African schools Y Sayed, S Motala SA Comparative and History of Education Society (SACHES), 2012 | 28 | 2012 |
| Educational Access in South Africa. Country Analytic Review. S Motala, V Dieltens, N Carrim, P Kgobe, G Moyo, S Rembe Online Submission, 2007 | 26 | 2007 |
| 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 | 24 | 2017 |
| Governance and finance in the South African schooling system: the first decade of democracy S Motala, J Pampallis Centre for Education Policy Development, 2005 | 24 | 2005 |
| From policy to implementation: Ongoing challenges and constraints S Motala Quarterly Review of Education and Training in South Africa 5 (1), 1, 1997 | 23 | 1997 |
| " A Call to Action": A Review of Minister K. Asmal's Educational Priorities S Motala, S Vally, M Modiba University of the Witwatersrand, Education Policy Unit, 1999 | 21 | 1999 |
| Review of the financing, resourcing and costs of education in public schools: A commentary S Motala, H Perry, M Sujee, B Fleisch Quarterly Review of Education and Training in South Africa 10 (1), 2-13, 2003 | 20 | 2003 |
