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Harvey Ward was born on 1927 in South Africa, is a Rhodesian businessman (1927–1995). Discover Harvey Ward's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 68 years old?
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Harvey Grenville Ward (1927 – April 1995) was a Director-General of the Rhodesian Broadcasting Corporation noted for his anticommunism and for supporting Ian Smith's government in Rhodesia and South Africa.
Ward was a leading member of the Conservative Monday Club.
Ward was born in Southern Rhodesia to an English father and a South African mother.
His parents settled in Africa and were engaged in enterprises such as the financing of railway construction and the building of numerous hotels.
He was due to address a meeting of the Africa Committee of the Monday Club at the House of Lords, organized by the former Conservative Party MP Harold Soref on the 29th, and visit family in Gloucestershire.
On being asked why entry had never been refused on previous journeys to Britain by Ward, a Home Office spokesman said, "I don't know. It may have been a mistake or oversight".
They managed the Victoria Falls Hotel until 1937.
He chose a career in journalism by starting with the Cape Argus and then becoming a specialist in African journalism covering the great social upheavals of the late 1950s and the 1960s for Reuters.
He then settled in Salisbury and became Head of News Services at the Rhodesia Herald, eventually becoming Director-General of the Rhodesian Broadcasting Corporation, which effectively put him in charge of government propaganda.
Ward is said to have removed references to black sporting achievements from sports programmes that were carried on state television.
Ward was an overseas member of the Conservative Monday Club and found himself the center of a minor sensation on 26 July 1977, when immigration officials at Heathrow Airport held him for seven hours before they formally refused him permission to enter Britain and placed him aboard another plane to Munich.
An armed insurrection, several years of negotiations and the imposition of sanctions by South Africa at the behest of The West, Ian Smith's administration was replaced by African majority rule in 1979.
Ward described it as "the betrayal of western nations to their own kind".
As a prominent supporter of Smith's administration, Ward was forced to leave Zimbabwe.
He and his family moved to South Africa and advised the white minority government there on how to avoid international economic sanctions.
Subsequently, Ward served as a political adviser to many African leaders and was involved in international intelligence.
His watch-word became "dedicated to fighting communism" and he traveled worldwide, lecturing on counter-insurgency and terrorism.
He described the Soviet Union as run by "gangsters" and totally untrustworthy.
He supported the anti-communist revolts in the former Soviet Bloc saying that it was "a simple matter of good versus evil."
In Africa, Ward saw no hope.
"Africa is the most exploited of all the continents, and it will stay that way. There has never been any peace in Africa, and I see no end to tribal conflict, spreading of diseases and other plagues," he said.
In 1982, he wrote an article Zimbabwe Today, for the Monday Club's journal, Monday World, that was prophetic in its content.
His wife died in 1986, and he moved to the United Kingdom.
Three of his four children remained in South Africa.
At the October 1988 Conservative Party Conference, Western Goals (UK) (which Ward had also joined) held a fringe meeting on the subject of "International Terrorism - how the West can fight back".
The latter spoke concerning top-level links between the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) and African National Congress (ANC).
He continued to travel and lecture, and joined the Conservative Party.
He became an active member of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Conservative Monday Club, and by 1990 was a member of the Club's Executive Council.
He claimed Ward's role in the propaganda campaign during the late 1990s but only after Ward had died.
In the early 1990s, Ward's fourth child, Rowena, who had been in the British Police Service, returned to live in South Africa.
Ward followed and took up residence in Port Elizabeth with his son, Harvey and his daughter-in-law, Kathy.
In 1991, Ward is claimed to have worked in conjunction with South African security policeman Paul Erasmus to leak false accusations secretly against Winnie Mandela and her daughters by accusing them of being nymphomaniacs and drug abusers.
The reports were described as having come from dissidents in the African National Congress.
They were issued in an effort to divide the ANC's leadership.
They were then taken up by papers such as The Independent, the Sunday Times and Vanity Fair.
Erasmus later acknowledged profound regret for his actions in that and other matters and affected a reconciliation with Mandela.
His last public engagement was a speech at the Robbie Burns Society in Port Elizabeth in March 1995.