00:00Zambia's former Vice President Guy Scott, who briefly became Africa's only White Head
00:05of State since the end of apartheid, died on Wednesday at the age of 82.
00:10The economist, who was born in Zambia to Scottish parents, died at his farm in the capital,
00:16Osaka, after a short illness.
00:18Scott served as Vice President of the copper-producing Southern African country from 2011 to 2014.
00:25He became Acting President in 2014 following the death of President Michael Sutter, making
00:31him Africa's first White Head of State since South Africa's F.W.
00:36de Klerk.
00:37Scott served in the role for nearly three months but was barred by the Constitution from running
00:41for President because his parents were not Zambian by birth.
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