White voters voice unease with South Africa's ruling ANC
Danville (South Africa) (AFP) - Holding his green identity book tight in his hand, Adriaan Courdier stands in line to cast the first vote of his life.
He is one of a minority of poor whites using Wednesday's election to voice their unease with today's South Africa.
The 23-year-old aluminium factory worker is voting with the "born frees," a generation of South Africans born after the end of apartheid, white minority rule, in 1994.
"My family all agree, for 20 years already nothing has happened," said Courdier, a resident of Danville, a destitute suburb in Pretoria, South Africa's administrative capital.
"Some of my family are homeless, they don't have jobs, they are living on the street," said the Afrikaner, dressed in a navy blue nylon tracksuit and a beanie. . . .