columnist in the country." In 1988, her bosses replaced Jani Allan's Week with "Face to Face", a profile column with greater focus on political subjects. As South Africa became increasingly isolated in the international community because of apartheid, she interviewed political players such as Eugène Terre'Blanche, Winnie Mandela, Denis Worrall, and Mangosuthu Buthelezi. Assassination attempt and emigration Following an assassination attempt on her life in 1989, secret service agents advised her to leave South Africa. She resumed work for the Johannesburg newspaper from their London office. In London, Allan launched a new column for the newspaper titled Jani at Large with the tag-line Jani Allan - Reporting from London. After six weeks in London, Allan returned to work at the Johannesburg office. After a week back at work, Allan was asked to hand in her resignation as she had "become the story". Allan's tenure at the newspaper ended in September 1989. 1990–1996: London By 1990 Allan had become a regular columnist for the South African weekly magazine, Scope, launching the self-titled Jani Allan column from her base in London. At the peak of its success, Scope had the largest circulation of any English-language magazine in South Africa. An article written by Allan on 5 October 1990, volume 25, number 20 in the magazine was presented by the MP Dries Bruwer to the South African parliament in 1991 in support of a legislation issue. In 1990, she also worked as an occasional society columnist for the London Sunday Times, interviewing personalities such as Charlton Heston for the newspaper and publishing opinion pieces for the newspaper. She later worked for the SABC broadcaster and journalist, Cliff Saunders's London press agency and interviewed South African and European political figures such as Jean-Marie Le Pen. Allan was also published by the London Evening Standard where she published reports on her former inquisitor George Carman's latest case, in which Carman was defending The People against a libel case taken by Mona Bauwens. She also wrote for The Spectator where she described Carman as "a small bewigged ferret." Allan published opinion pieces in the Daily Mail and British conservative magazine The Salisbury Review. She also did research for and contributed to the anti-fascist magazine Searchlight. The book that had been embroiled in controversy during the libel case because of its content was titled White Sunset and had right-wing groups in South Africa as its subject. It