Aminuis

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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.Economy and InfrastructureThe 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.EducationThere are a number of schools in the Aminuis area: Roman Catholic Mokaleng Combined School, the school first founded by the missionaries in 1902 Rietquelle Junior Secondary School at Rietquelle, founded in 1935 as first government school for the indigenous population. Founder and at first sole teacher at the school was Otto Schimming. Motsomi Primary School Hosea Kutako Primary School, built in 1974 with a capacity of 900 learners

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