Prosus is owned by Naspers (RSA) which owns quite a lot of Tencent, so there is a Chinese connexion, but I’m not sure about Chinese control. I haven’t read much of News24 (owned by Naspers) but they didn’t seem to be that different coverage-wise from the rest of the SA media on the spy scandal—after they broke the story—although, good lord, Xiaomei Havard must have been the world’s worst spy if the story was right, as Rebecca Davis pointed out: https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2021-09-01-how-serio....

Indeed it's Dutch and is also a subsidiary of the South American company Naspers.