{"id":39747,"date":"2026-07-16T12:22:29","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T10:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=39747"},"modified":"2026-07-16T12:22:29","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T10:22:29","slug":"zambia-accords-former-vice-predident-guy-scott-a-state-funeral","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/zambia-accords-former-vice-predident-guy-scott-a-state-funeral\/","title":{"rendered":"Zambia accords former Vice Predident Guy Scott a state funeral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema has accorded former Vice President Guy Scott a state funeral.<\/p>\n<p>Scott served as acting President after the death of President Michael Sata in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Scott passed away at the age of 82 at his farm in Leopard\u2019s Hill, outside Lusaka.<\/p>\n<p>His passing comes as Zambia heads into a crucial election campaign ahead of next month\u2019s polls.<\/p>\n<p>The government has honoured him with a state funeral, even as uncertainty continues over the burial of former President Edgar Lungu, who died in South Africa last year.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014SABC\u2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":39703,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-39747","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Scott served as acting President after the death of President Michael Sata in 2014.","published_date":"","news_description":"Scott served as acting President after the death of President Michael Sata in 2014.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/39747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/39747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39748,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/39747\/revisions\/39748"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=39747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}