Aminuis
| Aminuis | |
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| Settlement | |
 Aminuis
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| Coordinates: 23°38′00″S 19°22′00″E / 23.63333°S 19.36667°ECoordinates: 23°38′00″S 19°22′00″E / 23.63333°S 19.36667°E | |
| Country |
 Namibia
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| Region | Omaheke Region |
| Constituency | Aminuis Constituency |
| Time zone | South African Standard Time (UTC+1) |
| Climate | BWh |
Aminuis is a cluster of small settlements in the remote eastern part of the Omaheke Region of Namibia, located about 500 km east of Windhoek. It is the district capital of the Aminuis electoral constituency.
The village is riddled by poverty and joblessness. The main economic activity is subsistence farming with cattle, goats and sheep but frequent droughts make this difficult. The Tswana people used to mine salt from a nearby pan but went out of business after they could not meet the demand that it be iodised.
There is no post office at Aminuis, and the nearest police station is at Corridor 13. Only the Ministries of Agriculture, Basic Education and Health run small satellite offices. The Catholic Church operates a parish, Our Lady of Perpetual Succour in Aminuis; it belongs to the Archdiocese of Windhoek.
There are a number of schools in the Aminuis area:
The area around Aminuis was inhabited by San since at least the 18th century. In the 1880s Tswana people settled at Aminuis with the permission of Andreas Lambert of Leonardville, Kaptein of the Kaiǀkhauan (Khauas Nama).
In 1902 the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate, a congregation of the Roman Catholic Church, founded a missionary station and a school.
On 1 December 1905 at the height of the Herero and Namaqua War of 1904–1907, Imperial Germany's Schutztruppe ("protection force", the unit deployed to the German colony) and fighters of the Red Nation clashed south-east of Aminuis in the Battle of ǃGu-ǃoms. Manasse ǃNoreseb, leader of the Red Nation and today regarded a hero of the struggle against colonisation in Namibia, died in this battle.
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