Top 15 Jani Allan Quotes

South African columnist and broadcaster

Jani Allan (11 September 1952 – 25 July 2023) was a South African columnist and radio personality who became the subject of media coverage.

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Dressing with style is akin to issuing a manifesto; dressing fashionably is like signing a petition.

But despite the fact that everyone thinks that I'm an IFP member, I do not have any political affiliations. I support Buthelezi the man because he makes me believe that heroes still exist.

Most of the time our discussions are political, because it's hard not to be political in this country (not like in Britain, where you can ignore the rather sedate way everything's going downhill).

That night I made copies of all the documents with shaking hands and gave them to a friend with contacts in the British secret services. I had a bitter taste in my mouth.

And I think that my whole life, looking back at it, I was so rooted in worldly things, in worldly values, fame, fashion and fortune and all the things that are just transient.

The facts of the matter are (that) I did not do any of the things of which I was accused by paid witnesses. But having said that, I'm not sitting here today pleading for the world to believe me because I've come to God. He knows what's in my heart; he knows the truth of the matter. And the witnesses who lied do as well.

Whatever award is given for libel, being cross-examined by you would not make it enough money.

I disapproved of the number of men she had traipsing into her bedroom and suggested she should have a turnstile on her bedroom door.

A pervasive moral turpitude underlies South African society.

to miik the citizens to the extent that they start mooing, is contrary to improving living standards.

I'm impaled on the blue flames of his blowtorch eyes, you see.

You'd have to be dead not to be impressed by his sincerity. But then didn't Oscar Wilde say say "The worst vice of the fanatic is his sincerity".

A black-belt bullshitter

The original of the yellow rose is clad (you've guessed it) in canary yellow. The lemon-meringue confection has been poured into yellow slacks and yellow shirt, an immaculate yellow-blonde barbie-doll with 'EFG- Follies-Girl' written all over her.

It is her total professionalism and perennial striving for perfection that elevated Moira from the merely blonde to the maxi-talented.

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