Jani Allan

Jani Allan (born 11 September 1952) is a South African columnist and radio commentator. She became a household name as a columnist for the liberal newspaper, the Sunday Times where she worked between 1979 and 1990. She later became the subject of press interest over affair allegations with an interviewee, the late right-wing political leader Eugène Terre'Blanche. In 1989, she fled to London after she was the target of an assassination attempt by a splinter cell group when they bombed her Johannesburg apartment. She later became a regular columnist for the South African magazine, Scope. In 1992, she filed an unsuccessful libel suit against the broadcaster Channel 4 over her depiction in Nick Broomfield's 1991 documentary, The Leader, His Driver and the Driver's Wife. She returned to South Africa in 1996, working as a Cape Talk DJ and web columnist before emigrating to the United States five years later, where she is writing her memoirs.