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Executive Director of the Social Policy Institute, Isobel Frye says the COVID-19 lockdown affected the human rights of South Africans. Her comment comes as citizens mark Human Rights Day on Monday. This is the second year that the day is commemorated under lockdown. Frye says the question of how human rights were impacted by the COVID-19 lockdown is a very complicated and intersectional matter because defiantly human rights were affected. She says the rights of free movement of people were restricted. Frye says, “It was felt that the benefits to society of limiting and slowing down infection w…