| Thabo Mbeki and the Battle for the Soul of the ANC WM Gumede Zed Books Ltd., 2008 | 798 | 2008 |
| Delivering the democratic developmental state in South Africa W Gumede Development Planning Division working paper series 9, 2009 | 120 | 2009 |
| South Africa: Jacob Zuma and the difficulties of consolidating South Africa's democracy WM Gumede African Affairs 107 (427), 261-271, 2008 | 71 | 2008 |
| Restless nation: Making sense of troubled times WM Gumede (No Title), 2012 | 69 | 2012 |
| The poverty of ideas: South African democracy and the retreat of intellectuals WM Gumede, L Dikeni | 48 | 2009 |
| The role of South Africa’s state-owned development finance institutions (DFIs) in building a democratic developmental state W Gumede, M Govender, K Motshidi Policy Brief 3, 1-8, 2011 | 35 | 2011 |
| Modernising the African National Congress: The legacy of President Thabo Mbeki WM Gumede State of the nation: South Africa, 35-57, 2008 | 31 | 2008 |
| Marikana: A crisis of legitimacy in the institutions that form the foundations of South Africa’s 1994 post-apartheid political settlement W Gumede Social Dynamics 41 (2), 327-343, 2015 | 30 | 2015 |
| Down to business, but nothing to show WM Gumede Thabo Mbeki’s world: The politics and ideology of the South African …, 2002 | 28 | 2002 |
| Tackling corruption W Gumede The Journal of the Helen Suzman Foundation 60, 15-23, 2011 | 27 | 2011 |
| The political economy of state-owned enterprises restructuring in South Africa W Gumede Journal of Governance & Public Policy 6 (2), 69, 2016 | 26 | 2016 |
| Rise in censorship of the Internet and social media in Africa W Gumede Journal of African Media Studies 8 (3), 413-421, 2016 | 23 | 2016 |
| Building a democratic political culture W Gumede The poverty of ideas. South African democracy and the retreat of …, 2009 | 23 | 2009 |
| The democracy deficit of Africa’s liberation movements turned governments W Gumede Politikon 44 (1), 27-48, 2017 | 21 | 2017 |
| Zuma has been so bad, he has in some ways actually been good W Gumede Sunday Times (Opinion), 13, 2018 | 17 | 2018 |
| The BRICS Alliance: challenges and opportunities for South Africa and Africa W Gumede Shifting Power Critical Perspectives on Emerging Economies, TNI Working Papers, 2014 | 14 | 2014 |
| Civics at the crossroads WM Gumede Democracy in action 10 (5), 16-17, 1996 | 14 | 1996 |
| Policy brief 14: combating corruption in South Africa W Gumede Democracy Works Foundation 3, 2017 | 13 | 2017 |
| Thabo Mbeki and the Struggle for the Soul of the ANC WM Gumede Zed Press, London 208, 209, 2005 | 11 | 2005 |
| Broken Corporate Governance: South Africa’s municipal state-owned entities and agencies W Gumede Governance and the postcolony: Views from Africa 194, 2019 | 10 | 2019 |
