She detects and deplores the ghost of the "swart gevaar" (the black peril) that sustained apartheid in the past century—and is still around.Some observers say that Mr Pistorius in his defence reflects the laager mentality of long-dead Afrikaners who felt they were up against the world.
(For instance, "swart vuilsakke" — black garbage bags — was translated as "black clothing").
The men's swart shadows fell on the ground like toppled statues.
To his eye, the pickpocket might have been Portuguese, or Indian, or even one of those swart little Neapolitans.
Mr Swart declares that he is determined to stamp out violence.
Yet the range of work offered is expanding fast, says Mr Swart.
Walt Whitman caught the fever, writing a poem for The Times of June 27 that began floridly: "Over sea, hither from Niphon,/Courteous, the Princes of Asia, swart-cheek'd princes.... " On and on it went like that.
An area of ancient folded mountains with elevations between 3,000 and 7,600 feet (900 and 2,300 metres) lies in the southwest of the country; it includes ranges such as the Tsitsikama, Outeniqua, Groot-Swart, Lange, Ceder, Drakenstein, and Hottentots Holland mountains, as well as Table Mountain and its associated features at Cape Town.
Gary Swart, the boss of oDesk, says the number of freelancers registered with the firm in America has risen from 28,000 at the end of 2008 to 247,000 at the end of April.That may, in part, be a reflection of American bosses' ruthless cuts in full-time jobs, forcing those laid off to scramble for whatever work they can find.
In July some 250,000 firms paid some 1.3m registered contractors who ply their trade there for over 1.8m hours of work, nearly twice as many as a year earlier.ODesk, founded in Silicon Valley in 2003, is a "game-changer", says Gary Swart, its chief executive.
Finding innovative ways to meet the needs of bigger companies is one of the reasons oDesk's lead is likely to continue growing, retorts Gary Swart, its chief executive.Anecdotal support for both sides is provided by Marc Piette, a founder of Locu, a start-up that uploads local content such as restaurant menus to the internet.
