Africa has its first white leader since FW de Klerk

[Trajan]

Zambia will have the unusual image of a white president following the death of the incumbent Michael Sata.

Guy Scott, a 70-year-old ex-farmer and economist, has become Zambia's acting president, ending speculation that his heritage would stop him being acting leader in the southern African state, where white people make up less than 40,000 of Zambia's 13 million-strong population.

University of Zambia political scientist Lee Habasonda says Mr Scott's critics may mount a legal challenge against his appointment by invoking the constitution's "parentage clause" which requires the president to be a "third generation" Zambian.

However, he believes Mr Scott qualifies to be caretaker president, as the constitution also states that in the event of the president's death, his deputy - a post Mr Scott has held since 2011 - will serve as acting leader until elections are held within 90 days.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-29816559

 

[Trajan]

"I think they regard me as a sort of mascot, a good luck charm for African politics," Mr Scott said in 2013 interview published in the UK's Guardian newspaper.

 

[Truth200]

Until alot more European countries have black leaders like a Prime Minister of the UK...

White people have no business being President in any part of Africa.

 

[Truth200]

 

[Poitier]

Zambians love him and he is only there temporarily.

 

[88m3]

 

[Box Cutta]

This is fukking disgusting.

How could he even become vice president?

 

[Poitier]

This is fukking disgusting.

How could he even become vice president?

Because he was born there?

 

[Blackking]

I bet this make some of you fakkits warm and happy on the inside.

 

[Truth200]

Because he was born there?

If he was born there and the people like him maybe that's ok.

But white countries in Europe do not have enough black leaders, it would need to go both ways.

Although white people made Obama president here in America with only a black population of 14%.

 

[Poitier]

If he was born there and the people like him maybe that's ok.

But white countries in Europe do not have enough black leaders, it would need to go both ways.

Although white people made Obama president here in America with only a black population of 14%.

He isn't the president.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

If he was born there and the people like him maybe that's ok.

But white countries in Europe do not have enough black leaders, it would need to go both ways.

Although white people made Obama president here in America with only a black population of 14%.

if anything it shows that multiculturalism is a very tricky subject in non-western governments.

 

[Truth200]

if anything it shows that multiculturalism is a very tricky subject in non-western governments.

That's because western countries are multicultural for the most part.

 

[88m3]

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

That's because western countries are multicultural for the most part.

yeah, but its like the whole "democracy" argument for non-democratic governments...its a mixed bag around the world.

No one likes discrimination, but this would never happen in say... China.

There are a lot of truly homogenous societies that make no qualms about maintaining their "image"