{"id":45157,"date":"2025-12-17T06:48:57","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T06:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/?p=45157"},"modified":"2025-12-17T06:48:57","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T06:48:57","slug":"bryan-habana-financial-feud-father","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/2025\/12\/17\/bryan-habana-financial-feud-father\/","title":{"rendered":"Bryan Habana opens up on the &#8216;tough&#8217; financial feud with his father"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Africa tv video display -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3579572842\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\">\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p><h2>Former Springbok wing Bryan Habana revealed how his relationship with his father deteriorated due to financial issues.<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Springbok rugby icon Bryan Habana has opened up about one of the most difficult times in his life \u2013 when he discovered his father, Bernie, had stolen money from him. <\/p>\n<p>The two have effectively not had a relationship since 2010, when Habana found out. <\/p>\n<p>In an emotional podcast with the UK-based podcast, <em>Business of Sport <\/em>recently, Habana revealed he had trusted his father to handle his financial affairs for him \u201cfrom an early age\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>Although he was receiving a salary as a professional rugby player, Habana relied on Bernie to handle the huge extra income which came from sponsorships and endorsement contracts. <\/p>\n<p>He saw none of it, he maintained. <\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-contracts-signed-without-consent\">Contracts signed without consent<\/h2>\n<p>Habana said he believed Bernie had set up a Bryan Habana Trust which would handle the extra income\u2026 but this was never done. He only discovered this later. <\/p>\n<p>All the money from his extra deals should have been going into this trust but it was \u201cgoing into my dad\u2019s bank account\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>He recalled having to contact individual sponsors at the end of 2009, and let them know he was no longer allowing his father to negotiate his contracts. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut the CEO of Canterbury International [the apparel makers] e-mailed me back immediately and said \u2018Bryan, we\u2019ve just signed you for five years. We paid a very big re-signing fee\u2019.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>When he tackled his father about it, Habana said he denied he had received any money, \u201cbut I had the contract in front of me\u2026 \u201cIt was tough.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>When asked to confirm whether his father had pocketed the money, Bryan answered: \u201cYeah. They were living off it.\u201d <\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-still-willing-to-meet-halfway\">Still willing to \u2018meet halfway\u2019 <\/h3>\n<p>The star winger said the first person to raise the issue of Bernie running all his financial affairs was Janine, who would later become his wife. <\/p>\n<p>When they got married, Habana and Janine wanted a quiet wedding, but Bernie convinced them to go for a major public spectacle. <\/p>\n<p>He was playing in New Zealand when he got calls from the wedding organisers saying they had not been paid by Bernie. <\/p>\n<p>When he and Janine were moving to Cape Town after he was signed by the Stormers, Habana asked his father to put down a deposit on their dream house. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe said: \u2018Cool, it\u2019s coming.\u2019 The more I asked, the more it wasn\u2019t coming. So I had to get bridging finance\u2026\u201d <\/p>\n<p>After he discovered the mismanagement, he had to keep it secret because the world believed he and his father were the best of friends. <\/p>\n<p>But it cut him up. Asked whether he would ever want a relationship with his father again, Habana said: \u201cI would easily choose it if he was willing to meet halfway.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>His priority now was \u201cmy tribe\u201d \u2013 Janine and sons Timothy and Gabriel.<\/p>\n<p><strong>NOW READ: SA rugby in mourning after former Bok women\u2019s captain Lusanda Dumke dies<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Africa tv video display -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3579572842\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\">\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n#Bryan #Habana #opens #tough #financial #feud #father<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Springbok wing Bryan Habana revealed how his relationship with his father deteriorated due to financial issues. 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