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Jani Allan
Jani Allan (born 11 September 1952) is a South African author and columnist. She became well known〔(ET, the boys, booze and blondes ) IOL. 13 April 2010〕 as a columnist for the centrist newspaper, the ''Sunday Times'' where she worked between 1980 and 1989 publishing columns such as ''Just Jani'', ''Jani Allan's Week'' and ''Face to Face''. At the height of her fame, her newspaper commissioned a Gallup poll in 1987 to find "the most admired person in South Africa", she came first.〔(Abstracts ) Weekly Mail.1992〕 She later became the subject of press interest over the nature of her relationship with an interview subject, the late Eugène Terre'Blanche. Allan strongly denied the affair allegations and in 1989, fled to London after her apartment was bombed. In 1992, she filed an unsuccessful libel suit against the broadcaster Channel 4. She returned to South Africa in 1996, publishing a web column and presenting a radio show on Cape Talk. Allan returned to the media frame in 2013, reinventing herself as a restaurant diarist and animal rights advocate.〔(The return of Jani Allan ) Mail and Guardian. 4 October 2013〕 In 2014, she made headlines around the world after publishing an open letter to accused murderer Oscar Pistorius. Jacana Media published Allan's memoirs, ''Jani Confidential'' on 16 March 2015. Allan contributes to South African titles such as the ''Daily Maverick'', ''The Big Issue South Africa'' and website, ''BizNews''.
==Early life==
Allan was adopted by a wealthy British-South African couple, John Murray Allan and Janet Sophia Henning at the age of one month.〔(Jani het van kleins af fantastiese verbeelding gehad, sê ma ) Beeld. 27 July 1992〕 Allan's adoptive father, a former sub-editor of the Johannesburg daily, ''The Star'' died when she was 18 months old. Her mother was an antiques dealer with a store in Randburg. Allan was raised by Henning and Henning's second husband, Walter Eric Monteith Fry. The family lived in Randburg before moving to Bryanston in Sandton. Allan attended Franklin D. Roosevelt Primary School as well as Blairgowrie Primary School where one of her contemporaries was the writer Rian Malan.
She later attended Roedean School and graduated from Greenside High School.〔 She is a trained classical pianist and recorded a televised piano concerto as a child,〔Streak, Diana. "Victim or Vixen?" (), Fair Lady, 28 May 1997〕 and made her debut with Johannesburg symphony orchestra at the age of 10.〔〔Passmore, John. "The bitch, the neo-Nazi and a big white bottom". London Evening Standard, 5 August 1992, p.15〕 She obtained a licenciate in music.〔 She also attained a BA Honours degree in Fine Art〔 at the University of the Witwatersrand where she also obtained a H.E.D. Post-grad Teaching Diploma. Allan received a first for painting and design and local gallery owner, Trevor Coleman offered to give her a one-woman exhibition. British newscaster Michael de Morgan opened the exhibition that was attended by art critic and watercolour artist, Richard Cheales.〔 Allan, Jani. 2015. ''Jani Confidential'', Jacana. pp. 36〕
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