Tencent is part owned by Naspers, originally a local South African media company who by some accounts have played a big part in the Tencent's success Quote from Reuters Founded in 1915, Naspers has transformed itself from an apartheid-era newspaper publisher into a 1.5 trillion rand ($127 billion) multinational with private equity-style investments in e-commerce platforms that also include OLX, the biggest classified sites in India and Brazil, and Russia’s Mail.ru.