Jani Allen made a name for herself as a columnist for the Sunday Times between 1979 and 1989. Her work as a journalist became so popular that she was voted “the most admired person in South Africa” in 1987. Her close relationship with Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging(AWB) leader Eugène Terre'Blanche was also highly publicized. In 1989, an assassination attempt saw her flee the country to London.
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11 September 1952
Jani Allan, South African Journalist, is born
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- 30 Sep 2019
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- 01 Jones David (2010), 'I'll always be known as the tart who slept with a racist buffoon': The British-born beauty who bewitched the murdered white supremacist Eugene Terreblanche, from the Mail Online, 16 April,[online] Available at: www.dailymail.co.uk [Accessed on 2 September 2013]
- 02Ward Stephen (1992) The journalist, the neo-Nazi and the bedroom farce: Jani Allan, who yesterday lost a libel case, has paid a high price for her links with Eugene Terre-Blanche. Stephen Ward reports from The Independent ,06 August, [online] Available at: www.independent.co.uk [Accessed on 2 September 2013]
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