The Namibian Institute of Mining and Technology (NIMT) is a technical vocational training institute in Arandis,

Namibia Namibia, officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country on the west coast of Southern Africa. Its borders include the Atlantic Ocean to the west, Angola and Zambia to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south; in the no ...

, established in 1991. It had 4,000 students and 270 staff , Eckhart Mueller was its executive director until he was murdered with his deputy on 15 April 2019. NIMT offers courses in mining, manufacturing and engineering. In 2007,

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donated N$2.1 million to open a second northern campus and in November of that year a campus was opened in

Tsumeb Tsumeb (; ) is a city of around 35,000 inhabitants and the largest town in the Oshikoto Region, Oshikoto region in northern Namibia. Tsumeb, since its founding in 1905, has been primarily a mining town. The town is the site of a deep mine (the ...

. NIMT also operates a campus in

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in southern Namibia. NIMT produces between 300 and 500 graduates a year who go on to be employed by the mining industry of Namibia.

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