Rice said he was diagnosed with the brain tumour after collapsing last month. However, neurosurgeons in South Africa said the position of the tumour ruled out surgery.

Rice told Eyewitness News in an interview released on Tuesday that he travelled to India for robotic radiation treatment, a procedure where a machine sends radiation into the brain using lasers to destroy the tumour.

Rice said he was initially told "'you're basically going to die.' Well, that's what we're all going to do, but I'm not in a hurry to die."

--Sapa-AP--