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Guy Scott
Guy Lindsay Scott was a Zambian politician who served as acting president of Zambia from 2014 to 2015 and was the 12th vice president from 2011 to 2014. Scott became acting president upon Michael Sata's death in office on 28 October 2014. This made him the first head of state of European descent in mainland Africa since F. W. de Klerk in 1994.
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politics · Acting President of Zambia from 2014 to 2015 · politician · economist · minister · also Guy Scott, Scott
Born 1 June 1944 · Died 15 July 2026 · Q153986
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2026· 5 entries
The Guardian: ‘From this perspective, the bullfrog feels powerful and mythical’: Steven Scott Grogin’s best phone picture
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Public attention spiked: 3,988 Wikipedia readers in one day, 28.2× the usual 142, with 0 article edits.
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Public attention spiked: 13,451 Wikipedia readers in one day, 95.1× the usual 142, with 50 article edits. Editors noted: made a gap between infobox and text
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Died 2026-07-15.
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2019· 1 entry
Published Adventures in Zambian Politics: A Story in Black and White, a book about both the history of Zambia and his own political career
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2014· 1 entry
Career landmark: President of Zambia (2014–2015).
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2013· 1 entry
“s Guardian newspaper , external . On Mr Sata, he commented:”
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2012· 1 entry
“You have this bloke presented to you as the local nutter, yet he was tremendously compos mentis.”
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2011· 2 entries
Career landmark: Vice President of Zambia (2011–2014).
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“I have long suspected Zambia is moving from a postcolonial to a cosmopolitan condition.”
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2010· 1 entry
Published “Features and development of <i>Coot</i>” in Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography — cited 28,824 times.
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2006· 1 entry
Career landmark: Member of the National Assembly of Zambia (2006–2016).
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2001· 1 entry
Returned to politics and joined the Patriotic Front, returning to the National Assembly after being elected MP for Lusaka Central in the 2006 general election
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1998· 1 entry
Could have validated him as a potential candidate
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1996· 1 entry
Scott resigned from the MMD to form the Lima Party together with Ben Kapita, the president of the Zambia National Farmers Union
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1991· 1 entry
Career landmark: Member of the National Assembly of Zambia (1991–1996).
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1990· 1 entry
Scott returned to Zambia and joined the Movement for Multi-Party Democracy (MMD) and was elected to be chair of its Agriculture Committee during the first party convention
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1987· 1 entry
The Centre for Research in Cognitive Science in 2003, and the Centre for Cognitive Science (COGS) in 2013
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1986· 1 entry
Studied at University of Sussex, doctorate (1986).
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1981· 1 entry
And after spending a year doing business in Kenya, moved to England in 1982
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1970· 1 entry
Scott and Malcolm Christie co-founded an agribusiness venture known as Walkover Estates, which focused on growing high-value crops, such as irrigated wheat, strawberries, and a wide range of off-season vegetables
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1944· 1 entry
Born 1944-06-01.
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1927· 1 entry
To work on Cecil Rhodes' railways, whilst his mother Grace, had emigrated from England in 1940
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