Books
2020: Matebesi SZ. 2020. Social licensing and mining in South Africa. New York: Routledge.
2017 Matebesi SZ. 2017. Civil strife against local governance. Dynamics of community protests in contemporary South Africa. Berlin & Toronto: Barbara Budrich Publishers.
Book chapters
2021: Matebesi SZ. 2021.Mining, environmental and human security challenges in South Africa. In Swain A, Öjendal J & Jägerskog A (eds.). Handbook of Security and the Environment. London: Edward Elgar, Chapter 8, pp. 103-114.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789900668.00016
Matebesi SZ. 2021. Yearning for basic municipal services: the trajectories of community protests in the Eastern Cape. In: Makiwane M, Gumede NA & Zembe-Mkabile, W (Eds.). Reflections from the margins: Complexities, transitions and development challenges: The case of the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa. Stellenbosch: Sun Media, Chapter 5, pp. 99-117. DOI: https://doi.org/10.52779/9781991201133/05
Matebesi SZ. 2021. Transitional justice in South Africa. In Peters S, Molope M & Louis T (Eds.). Dealing with the past. Transregional perspectives and experiences from Africa, Latin America and Europe. Baden-Baden, Germany: NOMOS Verlagsgesellschaft. Chapter 3, pp. 45-60. Available at https://www.nomos-elibrary.de/10.5771/9783748923527.pdf#page=44
Van der Watt P & Matebesi SZ. ‘The mines must fix the potholes’: A desperate community. In: Burger P, Campbell M, Denoon-Stevens S, Marais L & Van Rooyen D (Eds.). Coal, energy and development in South Africa: Reflections from Emalahleni. Edinburgh University Press, Chapter 15, pp. 205-217 (forthcoming, in press).
2019 Matebesi SZ. 2019. Insurgent citizenship and sustained resistance of a local taxi association. In: Coetzee JK, Rau A & Wojciechowska M (Eds.). Narrating the everyday: Windows on life in central South Africa. Bloemfontein: Sun Media, Chapter 20, pp. 420-442.
Sello JS, Coetzee JK, Elliker F, Groenewald C & Matebesi SZ. 2019. Online social networking, interactions and relations. In: Coetzee JK, Rau A & Wojciechowska M (Eds.). Narrating the everyday: Windows on life in central South Africa. Bloemfontein: Sun Media, Chapter 10, pp. 195-220.
2016 Atkinson D, Schenk R, Matebesi SZ, Badenhorst K, Umejesi I & Pretorius L. 2016. Impacts on Social Fabric. In: Scholes R, Lochner P, Schreiner G, Snyman-Van der Walt L & De Jager M (Eds.). 2016. Shale gas development in the Central Karoo: A scientific assessment of the opportunities and risks. Pretoria: CSIR. Available at http://seasgd.csir.co.za/scientific-assessment-chapters/.
Articles in scientific journals (accredited)
2018 Matebesi SZ & Marais L. 2018. Social licensing and mining in South Africa: Reflections from community protests at a mining site. Resources Policy, 59(Dec 2018):371-378. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resourpol.2018.08.009
Matebesi SZ.2018. “A hungry stomach knows no allegiance”: Transactional activism in community protests in Ficksburg. Journal of Contemporary History, 43(1):242-261. DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.18820/24150509/JCH43.v1.12
Matebesi SZ. 2018. Insurgent citizenship and sustained resistance of a local taxi association. Qualitative Sociology Review, XVI(4):168-185. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18778/ 1733-8077.14.4.11
Sele, J.S., Coetzee, J.K., Elliker, F., Groenewald, C & Matebesi, S.Z. 2018. Online social networking, interactions and relations: Students at the University of the Free State, Bloemfontein. Qualitative Sociology Review, XIV(4):100-120. DOI: http://dx.doi.org /10.18778/1733-8077.14.4.07
2017 Matebesi SZ & Botes L. 2017. Party identification and service delivery protests in the Eastern Cape and Northern Cape, South Africa. African Sociological Review, 21(2):81-99. Available at: https://www.ajol.info/index.php/asr/article/view/167162
2014 Rau A; Radloff S; Coetzee J; Nardi C; Smit R & Matebesi SZ. 2014. Students perceiving risk: a quantitative assessment of three South African universities. African Sociological Review, 18(1):65-90. Available at: https://www.ajol.info/index.php/asr/ article/download/113675/103395.
2013 Marais L & Matebesi SZ. Evidence-based policy development in South Africa: the case of provincial growth and development strategies. Urban Forum, 24 (3): 357-371. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12132-012-9179-4.
2011 Matebesi SZ & Botes LB. 2011. Khutsong cross-boundary protests: the triumph and failure of participatory governance? Politeia, 30 (1): 4-21. Persistent link: http://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC88266.
2010 Marais L, Cloete J, Matebesi SZ, Sigenu K & Grieshaber D. 2010. Low-income housing policy in practice in arid and semi-arid South Africa. Journal of Arid Areas, 74(10): 1340-1344. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaridenv.2010.03.010
2008 Marais L, Matebesi SZ, Mthombeni M, Botes L & Grieshaber D. 2008. Municipal unrest in the Free State (South Africa): a new form of social movement? Politeia, 27(2): 51-69. Persistent link: http://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC88211.
2005 Matebesi SZ, Meulemans H &Timmerman, C. 2005. Healthcare-seeking behaviour among clinic-based tuberculosis patients. Acta Academica Supplementum 1, 154-172. Available at: http://journals.ufs.ac.za/index.php/aa/article/view/1047/1036.
Meulemans H, Van Ouytsel J, Rigouts L, Mortelmans D, Heunis C, Matebesi SZ, & Van Rensburg H. 2005. Social capital and community TB care in the Free State, South Africa. Acta Academica Supplementum 1, 128-153. Available at: http://journals.ufs.ac.za/index.php/aa/article/download/1046/1035/.
Van der Spoel-van Dijk A, Mokhethi Z, Khumalo M, Shamputa C, Matebesi S, Van Rensburg H, Portaels F & Rigouts L. DNA fingerprinting analyses of M Tuberculosis: complex isolates from the Free State, South Africa, as part of a multidisciplinary study. Acta Academica Supplementum 1, 82-109. Available at: http://journals.ufs.ac.za/index.php/aa/article/view/1044/1033.
2004 Van Rensburg HCJ, Meulemans H, Rigouts L, Heunis JC, Janse van Rensburg E, Matebesi Z, Van der Spoel A, Timmerman C, De Graeve D, Pauwels L, Portaels F, Gryseels B & Van Houte J. Social research as an intervention tool in tuberculosis control. International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, 8(9):1127-1129. Available at: http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/iuatld/ijtld/2004/00000008/00000009/art00014#.
Matebesi SZ & Booysen F. Treatment adherence among tuberculosis patients. Acta Academica, 36(3):140-171. Available at http://hdl.handle.net/11660/6755.
1999 Janse van Rensburg E, Steyn F. Matebesi Z. 1999. Perspectives of health workers regarding primary health care delivery to the rural population in the Bothaville district. Curationis, 22(4): 49-53. https://www.curationis.org.za/index.php/ curationis/ article/viewFile/758/695.
1998 Ackerman L & Matebesi SZ. 1998. Experiences of co-resident carers of elderly persons in Mangaung (Bloemfontein). Southern African Journal of Gerontology, 7(1): 21-25. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.21504/sajg.v7i1.127.