Maurice Nyagumbo
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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 (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 died by drinking pesticide, reported as a suicide after political scandals.
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- ^ Multinational Monitor, April 1981
- ^ Abiodun Alao (1994), Brothers at War: Dissidence and Rebellion in Southern Africa, p. 101.
