| Cost recovery and the crisis of service delivery in South Africa DA McDonald, J Pape HSRC publishers, Zed Books, 2002 | 443 | 2002 |
| The age of commodity: Water privatization in Southern Africa DA McDonald, G Ruiters Earthscan, 2005 | 414* | 2005 |
| Environmental Justice in South Africa DA McDonald Environmental Justice in South Africa, 2002 | 370 | 2002 |
| World city syndrome: Neoliberalism and inequality in Cape Town DA McDonald Routledge, 2012 | 343 | 2012 |
| Writing xenophobia: Immigration and the print media in post-apartheid South Africa R Danso, DA McDonald Africa today, 115-137, 2001 | 312 | 2001 |
| Of liquid dreams: a political ecology of water privatization in Buenos Aires AJ Loftus, DA McDonald Environment and Urbanization 13 (2), 179-199, 2001 | 228 | 2001 |
| Electric capitalism: Recolonising Africa on the power grid DA McDonald Routledge, 2012 | 189 | 2012 |
| Introduction to special issue: Evaluating South African immigration policy after apartheid J Crush, DA McDonald Africa Today, 1-13, 2001 | 183 | 2001 |
| On borders: Perspectives on international migration in Southern Africa DA McDonald (No Title), 2000 | 182 | 2000 |
| The relative deprivation-gratification continuum and the attitudes of South Africans toward immigrants: A test of the V-curve hypothesis. M Dambrun, DM Taylor, DA McDonald, J Crush, A Méot Journal of personality and social psychology 91 (6), 1032, 2006 | 166 | 2006 |
| Remunicipalisation: Putting water back into public hands M Pigeon, DA McDonald, O Hoedeman, S Kishimoto Transnational Institute, Amsterdam, 2012 | 162 | 2012 |
| Privatising Cape Town: From apartheid to neo-liberalism in the mother city DA McDonald, L Smith Urban studies 41 (8), 1461-1484, 2004 | 150 | 2004 |
| Remunicipalization: The future of water services? DA McDonald Geoforum 91, 47-56, 2018 | 149 | 2018 |
| Alternatives to privatization: Public options for essential services in the global South DA McDonald, G Ruiters Routledge, 2012 | 141 | 2012 |
| Transnationalism and new African immigration to South Africa JS Crush, DA McDonald (No Title), 2002 | 121 | 2002 |
| Transnationalism, African immigration, and new migrant spaces in South Africa: An introduction J Crush, DA McDonald Canadian Journal of African Studies/Revue canadienne des études africaines …, 2000 | 120 | 2000 |
| The lives and times of African migrants & immigrants in post-apartheid South Africa DA McDonald Southern African Migration Project, 1999 | 113 | 1999 |
| The bell tolls for thee: cost recovery, cutoffs, and the affordability of municipal services in South Africa D McDonald Cost recovery and the crisis of service delivery in South Africa 6 (11), 2002 | 109 | 2002 |
| The theory and practice of cost recovery in South Africa DA McDonald Cost recovery and the crisis of service delivery in South Africa, 17-37, 2002 | 109 | 2002 |
| Ubuntu bashing: the marketisation of ‘African values’ in South Africa DA McDonald Review of African Political Economy 37 (124), 139-152, 2010 | 108 | 2010 |
