Jani Allan resurfaces with Letter to Oscar

Hi there, In the mid-1980s, I was a young man in a hurry. Addicted to ambition, hard work had landed me a senior position at the Sunday Times, which in those days was the biggest name in media. In among all those household names, columnist Jani Allan was like a Goddess. She always seemed terribly … Read more

Jani Allan: Oscar Pistorius, Eugene Terre’Blanche cut from same cloth

During my years at the Sunday Times in the mid-1980s, columnist Jani Allan (right) was like a Goddess. She always seemed terribly out of place in the smoky, messy offices at the bottom end of Mooi Street – a slim, silent, mysterious creature with an acute fashion sense that heightened the way she contrasted with … Read more