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BBC SAYS AFRICA HAS FIRST WHITE PRESIDENT SINCE FW de Clerk Zambian Vice-President Guy Scott has been named acting leader following the death of President Michael Sata. Presidential elections to choose a permanent successor will be held within 90 days, Defence Minister Edgar Lungu said. Mr Scott becomes Africas first white head of state since FW de Klerk in apartheid South Africa. He was being treated at Londons King Edward VII hospital where he died on Tuesday night. Mr Sata died in the UK aged 77 after receiving treatment for an undisclosed illness. Mr Scott regularly stood in for the president at official events, but was never appointed acting president when Mr Sata was abroad - so this is his first time to officially lead the country. Guy Scott Often disparagingly referred to as the ceremonial vice-president He was born in 1944 in Northern Rhodesia after father emigrated from Glasgow to work as a doctor on the railways A Cambridge-trained economist, he entered politics in 1990 joining the MMD which won the first multiparty elections the next year As agricultural minister he oversaw the recovery from a devastating drought in 1992/93 He joined Michael Satas Patriotic Front (PF) in 2001 Appointed vice-president in September 2011 after the PFs election victory As his parents were not born in Zambia a constitutional clause on parentage may nullify any attempt to run for president
Posted on: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 13:52:24 +0000

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