Popular South African broadcaster and sports presenter Robert Marawa is thankful to be still alive after suffering from a heart attack on Saturday.

Marawa posted on Twitter on Saturday that he drove himself to the hospital and withing a couple of hours, he was in Intensive Care Unit (ICU) which was his third heart attack in as many years.

“I say unbelievable because it is the brink of life and not living. ICU is no playground,” he said in a live video on social media.

“There was something, there was a pain that was not making any sense,” he added.

The veteran broadcaster is currently in the recovery ward.