I spent some time in this cafe in 1997. Rose was the waitress, she was tall and sporting, a colored woman --- coloured as they spell it in South Africa. I am so glad that I didn't connect with her. She would have been enormous trouble.

Cafe Matisse is in Kalk Bay, a sea-girted suburb of Capetown. I booked a bed and breakfast down the street, an establishment run by an Indian couple, Mia and Fatima Laher.
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