Many old students know the Officers Mess, situated on the grounds of the Grootfontein College of Agriculture as a former hostel named House Karoo.

The mess dates from the Anglo Boer War period (1903-1910) and was one of many corrugated iron-and-wood structures that belonged to a vast British Military encampment on the farm, Grootfontein. Both its faade and ground plan closely resemble two other famous old Officers Messes; viz The Wynberg Officers Mess and the Jan Smuts House, Doornkloof, Irene.

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