Zambia's Guy Scott, Who Was Africa's First White Head of State in Decades, Has Died at 82
The government said he died after an illness, and President Hakainde Hichilema has ordered a state funeral for the former acting president.
- On Wednesday, the Zambian government announced the death of former Vice President Guy Scott at age 82, following an illness at his farm in the Leopards Hill area.
- Scott served as minister of agriculture before becoming vice president in 2011 under President Michael Sata, later assuming the acting presidency following Sata's death in October 2014.
- A Cambridge-educated economist, Scott was constitutionally barred from running for president because his parents were not born in Zambia, despite serving in Parliament since 1991.
- Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema ordered a state funeral for Scott, according to a government statement, though the date has not yet been announced.
- His tenure as acting president made Scott Africa's first white head of state in two decades, a distinction held since Klerk left office in 1994.
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(Johannesburg=Yonhap News) Correspondent Na Hak-jin = Scott, the former Acting President of Zambia (Vice President...), who is the only white person to have served as head of state on the African continent since democratization.
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Guy Scott guided the African country through a difficult transition with a “steady hand” and a commitment to constitutional order, President Hakainde Hichilema said Former acting Zambian President Guy Scott, the first white head of state in sub-Saharan Africa since the end of apartheid, has died aged 82, the government announced. Scott died on Wednesday […] The post Zambia’s first white leader dies at 82 appeared first on The Press United | Inte…
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