text: So it's apartheid's fault that the miners acted so violently, eh?  Some apartheid apparatchik, but not a witchdoctor, informed them that muti would turn the police's bullets to water. It's some evil dead white dude's fault that many of them have two families and too much debt. 
  
  Yes, of course. The devil made Hansie do it, and Verwoerd made the miners and the police do it.
  
  You know what would be nice? One, just one, original thought from a journalist, instead of the hackneyed blame-apartheid drivel that contaminates 99% of so-called journalism in South Africa these days.