The nearly $38,000 sale of Charles Pachter's patriotic pop-art Canadian flag portrait was among the high points of Joyner Canadian Fine Art's spring auction in Toronto on Tuesday evening.

A s South Africa celebrated Freedom Day, artist Thembani Hastings Mqhayi once again asserted that he was the original designer of the national flag, a key emblem of the country’s democratic journey.

On Freedom Day, artist Thembani Hastings Mqhayi renewed his claim that he designed South Africa’s national flag—one of the country’s most powerful symbols of democracy. Freedom Day ...