 They included the "First City of Grahamstown Volunteers" (1875– ); and the "Buffalo Corps of Rifle Volunteers" (later the "Kaffrarian Rifles") (1876– ), and "Grahamstown Volunteer Horse Artillery" (1876–1895).The neighbouring British-ruled province of Griqualand West also raised a small volunteer force.The Cape Colony Government was also of the opinion that small, highly mobile, mounted commandos, recruited from local people (such as the white farmers, Mfengu and Khoi who lived in the border regions) were best suited to the more irregular warfare in the mountainous frontier.