| Radio in Africa: Publics, cultures, communities WJ Tettey, W Mano, T Bosch, SR Davis, S Wolters, SP Lekgoathi, S Straus, ... Wits University Press, 2011 | 106 | 2011 |
| ‘You are listening to radio lebowa of the South African broadcasting corporation’: Vernacular Radio, Bantustan identity and listenership, 1960–1994 SP Lekgoathi Journal of southern African studies 35 (3), 575-594, 2009 | 58 | 2009 |
| ‘Colonial’experts, local interlocutors, informants and the making of an archive on the ‘Transvaal Ndebele’, 1930–1989 SP Lekgoathi The Journal of African History 50 (1), 61-80, 2009 | 43 | 2009 |
| The African National Congress's Radio Freedom and its audiences in apartheid South Africa, 19631991 SP Lekgoathi Journal of African Media Studies 2 (2), 139-153, 2010 | 35 | 2010 |
| Bantustan identity, censorship and subversion on Northern Sotho radio under apartheid, 1960s–80s SP Lekgoathi Radio in Africa: Publics, cultures, communities, 117-134, 2011 | 25 | 2011 |
| Chiefs, migrants and north Ndebele ethnicity in the context of surrounding homeland politics, 1965-1978 SP Lekgoathi African Studies 62 (1), 53-77, 2003 | 23 | 2003 |
| Ethnic separatism or cultural preservation? Ndebele radio under apartheid, 1983–1994 SP Lekgoathi New Histories of South Africa's Apartheid-Era Bantustans, 98-119, 2017 | 21 | 2017 |
| The History workshop, teacher development and outcomes-based education over the past seven years SP Lekgoathi African Studies 69 (1), 103-123, 2010 | 20 | 2010 |
| Teacher militancy in the rural Northern Transvaal comunity of Zebediela, 1986-1994 SP Lekgoathi South African Historical Journal 58 (1), 226-252, 2007 | 19 | 2007 |
| Guerrilla radios in Southern Africa: Broadcasters, technology, propaganda wars, and the armed struggle SP Lekgoathi, T Moloi, ARS Saíde Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2020 | 18 | 2020 |
| Ethnicity and identity: Struggle and contestation in the making of the Northern Transvaal Ndebele, ca. 1860–2005 SP Lekgoathi University of Minnesota, 2006 | 13 | 2006 |
| Mapungubwe reconsidered: a living legacy: exploring beyond the rise and decline of the Mapungubwe state S Chirikure, P Delius, A Esterhuysen, S Hall, S Lekgoathi, M Maulaudzi, ... Real African Publishers Pty Ltd., 2015 | 12 | 2015 |
| Report of the history ministerial task team for the Department of Basic Education SM Ndlovu, SP Lekgoathi, A Esterhuysen, NN Mkhize, G Weldon, ... Department of Basic Education: Pretoria, 2018 | 11 | 2018 |
| From homeboy networks to broader ethnic affiliations: Migrants from Zebediela and shifting identities on the Rand, 1930s–1970s SP Lekgoathi African Studies 73 (3), 432-454, 2014 | 7 | 2014 |
| Frontiers and interactions S Hall, S Lekgoathi, K Sadr, D Pearce, A Schoeman Mapungubwe reconsidered: exploring beyond the rise and decline of the …, 2013 | 7 | 2013 |
| Ethnicity and Gender in Precolonial Ndebele Societies in “South Africa” SP Lekgoathi Papers from the Precolonial Catalytic Project 1, 2014 | 5 | 2014 |
| Radio Freedom, Songs of Freedom and the Liberation Struggle in South Africa (1963–1991) SP Lekgoathi The Soundtrack of Conflict, 111-130, 2023 | 4 | 2023 |
| Africa meets Africa: Ndebele women designing identity SP Lekgoathi, P Rich, H Smuts, C Getz The Africa Meets Africa Project, Johannesburg, 2008 | 4 | 2008 |
| A Long Way Home: Migrant Worker Worlds 1800–2014 F Rankin-Smith, L Phillips, P Delius, J Steinberg, M Reddy, D Rajak, ... Wits University Press, 2017 | 3 | 2017 |
| Archives of Times Past: Conversations about South Africa’s Deep History C Kros, G Blundell, J Boeyens, SP Lekgoathi, A Esterhuysen, G McNulty, ... NYU Press, 2022 | 2 | 2022 |
