Zuma's son says not corrupt, but victim of S.African political 'storm'

The son of South Africa's ex-president Jacob Zuma, accused by witnesses of acting as a conduit in a major web of state graft, said on Tuesday he was not corrupt, but was caught up in political crossfire.

Duduzane Zuma, 35, was testifying before a judicial inquiry probing allegations that his father organised a systematic plunder of government coffers in a scandal known as "state capture".

"I'm looked at as a criminal, I'm looked at as this face of corruption, this guy that's plundered trillions out of this country," Zuma said as he wrapped his two-day testimony.

"So I just like to say to the public out there I'm not corrupt, I have not taken money from anybody, I never have and I never will." He has been named in the media and by various witnesses that have appeared before the inquiry, as having been a channel for the Guptas, a wealthy migrant business family that allegedly had a corrupt relationship with his father.

While Zuma was in office, the Guptas won lucrative contracts with state companies and allegedly held sway over his choice of cabinet