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The name Aminius, which is actually \/Nami #Nus, a Khoekhoegowab (spoken by Nama people) word meaning ‘Ostrich Farm’ (volstruisplaas in Afrikaans), tells a story that many people in the Omaheke region may no longer remember.<\/em><\/p>\n Place names often preserve the history of a community. In the case of \/Nami #Nus, it serves as a reminder of a time when ostriches roamed freely across this beautiful landscape.<\/p>\n Sadly, today’s reality stands in stark contrast to the history reflected in the name.<\/p>\n \n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> The name Aminius, which is actually \/Nami #Nus, a Khoekhoegowab (spoken by Nama people) word meaning ‘Ostrich Farm’ (volstruisplaas in Afrikaans), tells a story that many people in the Omaheke region may no longer remember. Place names often preserve the history of a community. In the case of \/Nami #Nus, it serves as a reminder […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":235776,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,5760,8208,46008,4706,724,257,54572,254,6059],"class_list":["post-235775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-future","tag-lessons","tag-nami","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-nus","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sustainable"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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