Jani Allan way we treat animals. She highlights the brutality of Marlin fishing - having reported on Marlin fishing events for the "Sunday Times". She is also critical of bullfighting recounting her experience of being invited by an ex-boyfriend to the San Fermin running of the bulls festival in Pamplona. On 4 August "The Witness" newspaper published Allan's piece on Zimbabwe's hunted lion, Cecil. In 1973 she was a student at the University of the Witwatersrand when she met her first husband, the finance magnate and art collector, Gordon Schachat. They married in Mauritius in 1982 and shared a home together in
San Fermín and a different "encaste" (sub-breed) of bull appears each day. The event begins at 8 a.m. when a first firecracker is lit to announce the release of the bulls from their corral. Before the year 1924 it started at 6 and at 7 between 1924 and 1974. Runners gather earlier at the beginning of the itinerary to ask for the protection of the Saint by singing a chant three times before a small statue of San Fermín which has been placed in a raised niche in a wall: “"To San Fermin we ask to be our patron saint and to