With the unfortunate death of Zambian President , Michael Sata, yesterday at London's King Edward VII hospital, where he was being treated, the vice president, Guy Scott has been named acting president.
The BBC reports that Guy Scott had regularly stood in for the president at official events, but was
never appointed acting president when Micheal Sata was abroad, so this is
his first time to officially lead the country. He has also become Africa's first white head of state since F W de Klerk in apartheid South Africa.
However, he might not be in the running for president because his parents are of Scottish descent and were not born in Zambia which is a constitutional clause on parentage and may nullify any attempt he has to run for president
The president's death comes just days after Zambia celebrated the 50th anniversary of independence from the UK. Micheal Sata's death makes him the second Zambian leader to die in office after Levy Mwanawasa in 2008.
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