Hysterical Makhanda pupils may have suffered ‘mass psychogenic illness’

Stress and anxiety around Covid-19, the accompanying prolonged lockdown and the disruptions caused to schooling may well have contributed to the strange symptoms manifested by pupils at Ntsika Secondary school in Makhanda this week, an educational psychologist has said...

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