| 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 | 193 | 2020 |
| 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 | 118 | 2009 |
| Quality and indicators of quality in South African education: A critical appraisal S Motala International Journal of Educational Development 21 (1), 61-78, 2001 | 112 | 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 | 110 | 2006 |
| Equity and ‘no fee’schools in South Africa: Challenges and prospects Y Sayed, S Motala Social Policy & Administration 46 (6), 672-687, 2012 | 94 | 2012 |
| South African education policy review: 1993-2000 L Chisholm, S Motala, S Vally Heinemann, 2003 | 89 | 2003 |
| People’s education: From people’s power to Tirisano S Motala, S Vally na, 1948 | 82 | 1948 |
| 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 | 74 | 2017 |
| 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 | 67 | 1995 |
| Educational de/centralisation and the quest for equity, democracy and quality SG Lewis, S Motala Changing Class, 115, 2004 | 66 | 2004 |
| Educational funding and equity in South African schools S Motala, D Carel South African schooling: The enigma of inequality: A study of the present …, 2019 | 52 | 2019 |
| Privatising public schooling in post‐apartheid South Africa–equity considerations S Motala Compare 39 (2), 185-202, 2009 | 50 | 2009 |
| Educational access in South Africa S Motala Journal of Educational Studies 2011 (si-1), 84-103, 2011 | 49 | 2011 |
| Epistemic decolonisation in reconstituting higher education pedagogy in South Africa: The student perspective S Motala, Y Sayed, T De Kock Possibilities and Complexities of Decolonising Higher Education, 116-132, 2023 | 46* | 2023 |
| 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 | 39 | 2012 |
| 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 | 38 | 2007 |
| 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 | 37 | 2017 |
| Pandemic leadership in higher education: New horizons, risks and complexities K Menon, S Motala Education as Change 25 (1), 1-19, 2021 | 35 | 2021 |
| Can BRICS build ivory towers of excellence? Giving new meaning to world-class universities SA David, S Motala Research in Comparative and International Education 12 (4), 512-528, 2017 | 33 | 2017 |
| Internationalization of higher education: A South African perspective I Rensburg, S Motala, SA David Frontiers of Education in China 10 (1), 91-109, 2015 | 28 | 2015 |