So a South African Company is the major shareholder in Tencent, and we don't even get a server???

By chance I read a report about Naspers, a homegrown South African company, and it mentioned how it invested in Tencent back in 2001 already. Digging a bit, it turns out Naspers is THE majority shareholder at 31.1% !!!

https://www.marketscreener.com/TENCENT-HOLDINGS-LTD-3045861/company/

Shareholders
Name Equities %
Naspers Ltd. 2,961,223,600 31.1%
Hua Teng Ma 819,507,500 8.61%
The Vanguard Group, Inc. 191,509,447 2.01%
BlackRock Fund Advisors 120,244,600 1.26%
T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc. 84,221,887 0.88%
Norges Bank Investment Management 79,924,685 0.84%
Schroder Investment Management Ltd. 54,319,039 0.57%
Capital Research & Management Co. (World Investors) 48,169,811 0.51%
Fidelity Management & Research Co. 47,757,774 0.50%
Capital Research & Management Co. (Global Investors) 46,100,818 0.48%

I think we most definitely deserve a South African server then :D

Screw this 200ms+ latency business :P

Come on GGG, just because the South African Springboks beat New Zealand's All Blacks last weekend, it's not a reason to hate on us... :P

ZULUL

playing from zimbabwe , i feel your pain bro. its really really hard trying to kill uber elder at 250 ping, it realy sucks ass

Ah, yes, but who owns that South African company? And who owns those? We have to go deeper!

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Mythabril wrote:

Ah, yes, but who owns that South African company? And who owns those? We have to go deeper!

I get what you are implying, but in this case it all remains in SA:

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Naspers tabled documents at earlier tribunal proceedings that clearly showed the locus of control of Naspers lay with Nasbel, Keerom and Wheatfields and the individuals behind it are South African citizens, Caxton said.

SO GIVE US OUR SEF EFFRICEN SERVERS!!!

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KingCroc wrote:

playing from zimbabwe , i feel your pain bro. its really really hard trying to kill uber elder at 250 ping, it realy sucks ass

/salute

That is even worse...

Wait... you have electricity in Africa?

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IamLoco wrote:

Wait... you have electricity in Africa?

Some parts of Africa, yes. South Africa? Everywhere.

Coal, solar, hydro and nuclear ;)

But not many people outside of Africa seems to know this, or couldn't care less to know about the world beyond their borders ;P

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Sparhawk2014 wrote:

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IamLoco wrote:

Wait... you have electricity in Africa?

Some parts of Africa, yes. South Africa? Everywhere.

Coal, solar, hydro and nuclear ;)

But not many people outside of Africa seems to know this, or couldn't care less to know about the world beyond their borders ;P

Dude, I was kidding. OFC I know that parts of Africa, especially SA are as modern as the US, Europe or parts of Asia.
I even visited a buddy in capetown several times and was impressed by the Internet connections - which are even better than ours in Germany.

So - WOW, you got electricity?!