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 Sunday Times where she worked between 1979-90. She is also known for her alleged affair 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, with a bomb exploding at her Johannesburg apartment. 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 radio DJ and columnist before emigrating five years later. In April...