Jani Allan was a South African journalist, columnist, writer, and broadcaster. She became one of the country’s first media celebrities in the 1980s and 1990s. In 1980, Allan became a columnist for the centrist newspaper, the Sunday Times, South Africa’s biggest-circulating weekly newspaper.
Jani Allan’s parents: Meet Janet Fry & John Murray Allan
Allan was adopted by a wealthy British-South African couple, John Murray Allan and Janet Sophia Henning, at the age of one month. 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 antique dealer with a store in Randburg.
Allan was raised by Henning and her 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.
Her mother was an antique 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.