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British continued both practices. In 1799, a Khoikhoi detachment took
part in the suppression of the Afrikaner rebellion in the eastern frontier
zone. After 1806, the Cape Regiment-later
known as the Cape Mounted
Rifles-with
white officers and Khoikhoi other ranks to the level of ser-
geant, fought, and fought well, in all the frontier wars against Africans and
in several skirmishes against Afrikaners, until it was disbanded in 1870.
The regiment's enrollment varied between t~o hundred and eight hundred.
The conditions of service were not good enough to make it popular among
the Khoikhoi, and white farmers always opposed and often obstructed
recruiting them on the grounds that it deprived Whites of labor.v!
Another option was residence on a mission station. Bythe 1830s, seven
such institutions in the colony were catering for Khoikhoi-s-five Moravian
and two LMS. Each station comprised up to ten thousand acres and pro-
vided homes for up to twelve hundred people. In material terms, the most
successful was Genadendal, which the Moravians conducted in a strong
paternalist spirit. The LMS missionaries were less demanding and their
stations were less prosperous. The location of Bethelsdorp, moreover, was