Gemma Wright and Jabulani Jele The rating agency cited policy uncertainty, slow implementation of structural reform, an increasingly depressed business environment and a worsening global economy for its economic growth downgrade. Image: iStock As has been highlighted in The Citizen, we now have a socially derived definition of a decent standard of living in SA. Dignity is a vitally important value in South Africa, both culturally and in the jurisprudence literature.