Tapfumaneyi Maurice Nyagumbo (12 December 1924 – 20 April 1989) was a Zimbabwean politician, who spent almost two decades in prison as a consequence of his political activities.
[2] His political associates at various times included James Chikerema and Joshua Nkomo.
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 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.
[5][6] Nyagumbo was implicated in a 1989 scandal involving illegal car sales by government officials and members of parliament, dubbed Willowgate[7][8] (referencing the Willowvale car assembly plant),[9] and in April 1989, aged 64, he committed suicide by drinking rat poison, ashamed that he had betrayed the trust of the people he had fought so hard to liberate.