| A paradox of victory: COSATU and the democratic transformation in South Africa S Buhlungu (No Title), 2010 | 265 | 2010 |
| Between marginalisation & revitalisation? The state of trade unionism in South Africa E Webster, S Buhlungu Review of African Political Economy 31 (100), 229-245, 2004 | 176 | 2004 |
| From compounded to fragmented labour: Mineworkers and the demise of compounds in South Africa A Bezuidenhout, S Buhlungu Antipode 43 (2), 237-263, 2011 | 172 | 2011 |
| State of the nation: South Africa 2007 S Buhlungu HSRC press, 2007 | 108 | 2007 |
| The state of the informal economy R Devey, C Skinner, I Valodia, S Buhlungu OF THE NATION, 223, 2006 | 89 | 2006 |
| Trade unions and democracy: Cosatu workers' political attitudes in South Africa S Buhlungu HSRC Press, 2006 | 89 | 2006 |
| Taking democracy seriously: Worker expectations and parliamentary democracy in South Africa D Ginsburg (No Title), 1995 | 87 | 1995 |
| State of the nation: South Africa 2005-2006 S Buhlungu, J Daniel, R Southall, J Lutchman hsrc Press, 2006 | 79 | 2006 |
| Union solidarity under stress: The case of the National Union of Mineworkers in South Africa S Buhlungu, A Bezuidenhout Labor Studies Journal 33 (3), 262-287, 2008 | 67 | 2008 |
| Trade unions and party politics: Labour movements in Africa B Beckman, S Buhlungu, L Sachikonye HSRC Press, 2010 | 65 | 2010 |
| Upstarts or bearers of tradition? The anti-privatisation forum of Gauteng S Buhlungu Voices of protest: social movements in post-apartheid South Africa, 67-87, 2006 | 62 | 2006 |
| COSATU'S Contested Legacy: South African trade unions in the second decade of democracy S Buhlungu, M Tshoaedi Brill, 2013 | 56 | 2013 |
| Rebels without a Cause of Their Own? The contradictory location of white officials in black unions in South Africa, 1973–94 S Buhlungu Current Sociology 54 (3), 427-451, 2006 | 54 | 2006 |
| Union-party alliances in the era of market regulation: The case of South Africa S Buhlungu Journal of Southern African Studies 31 (4), 701-717, 2005 | 51 | 2005 |
| The state of trade unionism in post-apartheid South Africa S Buhlungu State of the nation: South Africa 2004, 184-203, 2003 | 47 | 2003 |
| The anti-privatisation forum: A profile of a post-apartheid Social Movement S Buhlungu Globalisation, Marginalisation and New Social Movements in post-Apartheid …, 2004 | 42 | 2004 |
| Enclave Rustenburg: platinum mining and the post-apartheid social order A Bezuidenhout, S Buhlungu Review of African Political Economy 42 (146), 526-544, 2015 | 41 | 2015 |
| Tracking progress on the implementation and impact of the Employment Equity Act since its inception A Bezuidenhout, C Bischoff, S Buhlungu, K Lewins Research commissioned by the Department of Labour, South Africa, 2008 | 39 | 2008 |
| 10Old victories, new struggles: the state of the National Union of Mineworkers A Bezuidenhout, S Buhlungu w. hsrcpress. ac. za, 245, 2007 | 39 | 2007 |
| Trade unions and democracy in South Africa: union organizational challenges and solidarities in a time of transformation S Buhlungu, M Brookes, G Wood British Journal of Industrial Relations 46 (3), 439-468, 2008 | 35 | 2008 |