Harvey Ward

Harvey Grenville Ward (1927 — 1995) was Director-General of the Rhodesian Broadcasting Corporation, noted for his anti-communism and for his support for Ian Smith's government in Rhodesia and South Africa. He 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. They Managed the Victoria Falls Hotel until 1937. He chose a career in journalism starting with the Cape Argus and then becoming a specialist in African journalism covering the great social upheavals of the late 1950s and 60's 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, in effect, put him in charge of government propaganda. Ward is said to have removed references to black sporting achievements from sports programmes carried on state television.

Following an armed insurrection, several years of negotiations, and finally the imposition of sanctions by South Africa at the behest of The West, the Smith administration was replaced by African majority rule in 1979. Ward described this as "the betrayal of western nations to their own kind." As a prominent supporter of the Smith administration, Ward was forced to leave Zimbabwe. He and his family moved to South Africa and advised the white minority government there on avoiding 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.

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