Since the end of apartheid in South Africa, no white man has become a president in Africa.
This record was broken in Zambia today when former Vice President Guy Scott becomes the new President of the country after the death of President Michael Sata.
According to Zambian Defence Minister Edgar Lungu, Scott has been named the acting President pending when elections will be held within the next 90 days to choose a permanent successor to the late president.
BBC reports that Scott becomes Africa’s first white head of state since FW de Klerk in apartheid South Africa.
It would be recalled that Sata died on Tuesday night in the UK aged 77 after receiving treatment for an undisclosed illness.
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