Zuma Confirms Initiating Newspaper, Channel Ideas with Guptas

The Guptas partnered with a media house in India to establish the ANN7 channel, which was closed down after allegations of their involvement in "state capture" emerged.

The New Age was earlier first sold to an individual with controversial vendor financing from the Guptas, but also shut down after being economically unviable.

"Somebody can then say we were abusing this friendship. It was never the other way round," Zuma said.