Middle and lower level positions in colonial administration and other jobs which required literacy and a degree of education were largely occupied by whites.  Of the Africans who finished school, few were able to find employment and actually put their educations to use.  Teaching in missionary schools was one of the more common occupations for educated Africans.  The mixed-race population, known as coloureds or Mischlinge, had more opportunities for jobs than pure Africans but were still generally restricted to artisan labor and very limited work in colonial administration.