Guy Scott, previously vice president under the recently deceased former Zambian President, Michael Sata, 77, has officially been appointed as Acting President of Zambia.
Former President Sata died late on Tuesday in a London hospital after a long bout of illness.
Scott is the first white leader of an African nation since F.W. de Klerk, the last president of South Africa under apartheid, the white racist regime that ended in 1994. Scott, a 70-year-old former agriculture minister, has said he has no presidential ambitions, and he cannot in any case become a fully empowered president because his parents were born outside Zambia, according to analysts.
"Dr. Scott will act as president of the republic of Zambia until the country goes for a presidential by-election," said Defense Minister Edgar Lungu, who is also secretary general of the ruling Patriotic Front party.
"The government remains intact and so does the Patriotic Front as a party," Lungu said.
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