Quick facts

April 2010 — Britain’s Daily Mail newspaper quoted Jani Allan as saying: ‘How would you like it if your wife or mother was forever known as the tart who slept with a far-right racist buffoon who fell off his horse?’

Her book Face Value was published in the ’80s and featured columns she had written over the years called Just Jani in the Sunday Times

Voted ‘most admired person in South Africa’ in 1987, Allan interviewed celebrities and personalities, including Roger Moore, Charlton Heston, Winnie Mandela, Ursula Andress, Goldie Hawn, Barry Manilow and Mangosuthu Buthelezi