Our work addresses the range of digital economic policies and community programs needed to reduce the lifelong consequences of poverty and exclusion in South Africa’s democratic society through information and analysis in the field of human dignity and humiliation studies.

This research work contributes to understanding the concept of dignity and the manner it is entangled to the three structures of sustainability: social (people), technological (digital) and economic (profit) in one of South Africa’s largest cities, Johannesburg.

We seek to show that disengagement with the concept of dignity is revealed in much of the course of South Africa’s economic history since the 1880s, with lines converging on the industrial, and mining metropolis and on the Rand.