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O’ Connor, who’s been running this Death Café since December 2016, opened by asking us to find tables and then talk about who we are and why we are there.

“Unpredictability is the outcome,” the bright-blue-eyed host says, on why he still does this.

People who would never look at each other outside of the club connect here. “My mom sat next to two heavily pierced people when she came to it and they got on like a house of fire. She said they were kind and generous. Young people really like it,” he says.

People come from beyond Cape Town to