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Sorayah Nair

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Sorayah Nair

Dr Sorayah Nair is a clinical psychologist and founder of Business Health Solutions, which offers diversity training to effect change at the organisational, leadership and individual level

Diversity, equity and inclusion threatens a dominant narrative — whiteness, heterosexuality, patriarchy
A RACE TO HEAL

Diversity, equity and inclusion kills: Why we need to stop advocating for it

If power and accountability remain unchanged, inclusion efforts do not create equity — they reinforce vulnerability

  • Sorayah Nair
8 min read
The government of national unity. Photo: @Presidency/ZA/X
APARTHEID

GNU will go nowhere unless we reckon with our divisiveness

But the government of national unity has the potential to lead itself and South Africa into a future that is different from the divisive past

  • Sorayah Nair
10 min read
We will never survive as a nation or as humans if we put up racial barriers to isolate ourselves from one another, economically, socially and politically.
APARTHEID

White noise: Black people will always struggle to breathe and be heard

As long as white people refuse to confront their racism they remain robbed of the opportunity to fully understand it and its many manifestations

  • Sorayah Nair
10 min read
Crises, the kind that threaten our physical and psychological well-being, force us to stop. This unsolicited detour allows for a moment to pause. Psychologists speak of this time as reflection. (Yawar Nazir/Getty Images)
BILL GATES

What relationship therapy can teach us about our connection to the world

Handling a global crisis is not that different from dealing with partnership break-downs

  • Sorayah Nair
5 min read
Many people lack reliable electricity, clean water and adequate housing. When the state fails to provide these services, rights such as dignity, equality and access to healthcare are undermined. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
BBBEE

An inconvenient truth: Virus presents symptoms of socio-economic injustice

The speed at which substantial wealth was given shows that investment in transformation and justice does not enjoy the same humanitarian response

  • Sorayah Nair
9 min read