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Maurice Nyagumbo
Tapfumaneyi Maurice Nyagumbo (12 December 1924 – 28 April 1989) was a Zimbabwean politician.
==Life and career==
Nyagumbo was born in Makoni near Rusape, and had his primary education at St Faith Anglican Mission and St Augustine's Penhalonga. Working in South Africa in the 1940s, he joined the South African Communist Party.〔(Multinational Monitor, April 1981 )〕 In 1955 he became a founder member of the Zimbabwe Youth League. In 1959 he joined the African National Congress in 1959 and later that year he was detained. He spent most of the subsequent years until 1979 in prison in Southern Rhodesia. During his time in detention he wrote a book, ''With the People: An Autobiography From the Zimbabwe Struggle'', which was published soon after independence (Allison & Busby, 1979). He associated with Joshua Nkomo and James Chikerema, and they were arrested together in 1964.
Nyagumbo was elected to the House of Assembly in 1980. He was a ZANU (the Zimbabwe African National Union) representative in the 1985 talks to merge ZANU and Nkomo's ZAPU.〔Abiodun Alao (1994), ''Brothers at War: Dissidence and Rebellion in Southern Africa'', p. 101.〕 Nyagumbo was later was appointed Minister of Mines, and then was Minister of Political Affairs until 1988, when he became Senior Minister of State for Political Affairs. He resigned from his ministerial post and his post as administrative secretary of the governing party on 13 April 1989, in the wake of a report investigating corruption involving the sale of vehicles on the black market by Willowvale Motor Industries.〔( "Nyagumbo, Maurice Tapfumaneyi" ), ZANU PF website.〕〔AP, ("Ex-Zimbabwe Official Dies; Treated as Possible Suicide" ), ''New York Times'', 22 April 1989.〕
Nyagumbo committed suicide in 1989, aged 64, by drinking rat poison after being charged with perjury during so-called Willowgate scandal.〔("Willogate Remembered" ), 27 October 2008, Zimsite – The meeting-place for Zimbabweans world-wide.〕
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