TV LEGEND Mfundi Vundla's terrifying battle with cancer.
He revealed he came face-to-face with death not once, but three times.
The 79-year-old Generations creator was diagnosed with oesophageal cancer in 2022 and said the experience pushed him to the edge, leaving him unsure if he would survive.
"What was going through my mind when I was diagnosed with cancer and going through the treatment was basically like, am I going to make it? And quite frankly, there are times when I came very close to dying.
"I remember three distinct times when I got really, really close. I can remember that. And it's a horrible thing when you're fighting death," said Mfundi.
His condition worsened after he picked up a viral infection, which led to life-threatening complications.
"What happened to me is that when I had this cancer, I had an infection. I have a grandson who goes to school, so he picked up a viral infection in school and I was infected with this viral infection. And I ended up getting clots in my lungs called embolisms.
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"Now, when the clots go into your lungs, you can get a stroke or you can get a heart attack and they can kill you or the clot can lodge in your heart and you're dead," said the legendary producer.
At his lowest point, Mfundi found himself in ICU, fighting for his life.
"I remember I have these six nurses. I'm on a bed, they're controlling me. Man, I'm really dying and I'm trying to hold on to my life. I plead with them: 'Please save my life, please save my life.' They're trying to keep me on the bed, they're trying to put stuff on me.
"There's a specialist outside who's giving instructions as to what the nurses must do, certain injections. And then this specialist is asking me if I'm okay. I'm saying I'm okay because he wants to know whether I'm still with conscious," said Mfundi.
But he pulled through despite the trauma.
"It was a very, very, very harrowing experience. But I had two of those kinds of experiences, serious like that and I went through that. And then I talked to this nurse and she said: ‘No, Mr. Vundla, you are not the dying type'," he said.
