The Big Issue invites you to an intimate dinner where Jani Allan offers a sneak preview of her memoir, Jani Confidential.
Jani will be in conversation with Cape Argus books editor Vivien Horler as she allows us a glimpse into her riches-to-rags life.
WHEN: Monday 20 April at 6:30pm for 7:00pm
WHERE: 6 Spin Street, Cape Town 8001
TICKETS:Â R350 per person. Tickets to be purchased through Webtickets
Former Sunday Times columnist Jani Allan, who now lives in New Jersey in the United States returns to South Africa on a book tour nearly 30 years after her interview with Eugene Terre’Blanche, the AWB leader, which rocketed her on to the international media stage – perhaps for all the wrong reasons – and effectively ended her media career.
Marianne Thamm, Daily Maverick columnist reports that her memoir, just-published Jani Confidential, pubkished by Jacana, exposes not only the casual and brutal indifference of “white” South African life during apartheid, but also how the triple forces of racism, sexism and self-delusion served to publicly unmake a talented and intelligent writer caught up in the toxic currents of the time.
Jani’s reputation is reduced to tatters when she takes on UK’s Channel4 in a law suit that reverberated around the world and kept the public baying for blood.
But in all this we are able to see the real Jani Allan behind the fabulous brittle creature that the tabloids tore to shreds and devoured and then spat out.
That the real Jani Allan, gutsy, bright beyond the telling, vulnerable and a story-teller beyond compare has chosen to share her story is a remarkable gift to the reader. It is a story that will command a great deal of respect.
