Maurice Nyagumbo

Tapfumaneyi Maurice Nyagumbo (died 28 April 1989) was a Zimbabwean politician.

Working in South Africa in the 1940s, he joined the South African Communist Party.^[1] He spent most of the years 1957 to 1979 in detention in Southern Rhodesia. During this time he wrote an autobiography, With the People (Allison & Busby, 1979). He associated with Joshua Nkomo and James Chikerema, and they were arrested together in 1963.

He was a ZANU representative in the 1985 talks to merge ZANU and Nkomo's ZAPU.^[2]

He committed suicide in 1989 by drinking rat poison after being charged with perjury during so-called Willowgate scandal.

Notes

1. ^ Multinational Monitor, April 1981
2. ^ Abiodun Alao (1994), Brothers at War: Dissidence and Rebellion in Southern Africa, p. 101.

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Date of death	28 April 1989
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