| First president: A life of John Dube, founding president of the ANC H Hughes Jacana Media, 2011 | 131 | 2011 |
| Violence in Inanda, August 1985 H Hughes Journal of Southern African Studies 13 (3), 331-354, 1987 | 75 | 1987 |
| 'A Lighthouse for African Womanhood': Inanda Seminary, 1869-1945 H Hughes | 68 | 1990 |
| 'The Coolies Will Elbow Us out of the Country': African Reactions to Indian Immigration in the Colony of Natal, South Africa H Hughes Labour history review 72 (2), 155-168, 2007 | 37 | 2007 |
| Pandemic in paradise: Tourism pauses in Bali IN Subadra, H Hughes Tourism and Hospitality Research 22 (1), 122-128, 2022 | 35 | 2022 |
| Doubly elite: exploring the life of John Langalibalele Dube H Hughes Journal of Southern African Studies 27 (3), 445-458, 2001 | 33 | 2001 |
| 11Rainbow, renaissance, tribes and townships: tourism and heritage in South Africa since 1994 H Hughes Free download from www. hsrcpress. ac. za, 266, 2007 | 25 | 2007 |
| Politics and society in Inanda, Natal: the Qadi under Chief Mqhawe, c. 1840-1906 H Hughes PQDT-Global, 1995 | 15 | 1995 |
| What is remembered and what forgotten: a decade of redefining culture and heritage for tourism in South Africa H Hughes Conference on Developing Cultural Tourism, University of Nottingham …, 2003 | 14 | 2003 |
| The incorporation of historically disadvantaged communities into tourism initiatives in the new South Africa: Case studies from KwaZulu-Natal H Hughes, A Vaughan Reflections on international tourism. Management, marketing and the …, 2000 | 14 | 2000 |
| State strategy and popular response at the local level J Grest, H Hughes South African Research Service (ed.), South African Review Two, 45-62, 1984 | 14 | 1984 |
| The local state H Hughes, J Grest South African Review One, 122-41, 1983 | 13 | 1983 |
| The city closes in: The incorporation of Inanda into metropolitan Durban H Hughes The People’s City: African Life in Twentieth Century Durban, University of …, 1996 | 12 | 1996 |
| Imijondolo: a photographic essay on forced removals in the Inanda district of South Africa O Badsha, H Hughes Afrapix, 1985 | 10 | 1985 |
| Struggling for a Day in the Sun: The Emergence of a Beach Culture among African People in Durban Heather Hughes H Hughes Art and Identity at the Water's Edge, 141, 2012 | 9 | 2012 |
| Lives and Wives: Understanding African Nationalism in South Africa through a Biographical Approach1 H Hughes History Compass 10 (8), 562-573, 2012 | 8 | 2012 |
| First president H Hughes A life of John L. Dube, founding president of the ANC. Johannesburg: Jacana, 2011 | 8 | 2011 |
| Politics and society in Inanda H Hughes Natal: The Qadi under Chief Mqhawe, c 1906, 70-76, 1840 | 8 | 1840 |
| Protest poetry in pre-independence Mozambique and Angola H Hughes English in Africa 4 (1), 18-31, 1977 | 7 | 1977 |
| Dialectical dances: exploring John Dube’s public life HA Hughes The ANC and the Liberation Struggle in South Africa, 1-16, 2018 | 5 | 2018 |
