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.