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Vodacom has seen its South African operations take a hit after settling with Kenneth Makate in the Please Call Me saga. However, depite an R874 million knock—including the once-off settlement—the ...

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It's being reported on Thursday (6 November 2025) that the apparent inventor of the Please Call Me service, Nkosana Makate, is likely being paid out hundreds of millions of rand by former employer ...

Vodacom has announced that it has finally settled the Please Call Me matter with idea-man Kenneth Makate, reaching an out-of-court agreement—the details of which were not revealed. In a late-day ...

JSE-listed Vodacom Group has finally reached an out-of-court settlement with former employee Kenneth Nkosana Makate over the long-drawn-out “Please Call Me” invention dispute. The ...

In a landmark resolution that brings closure to nearly two decades of legal battles, Vodacom has settled its contentious dispute with Kenneth Nkosana Makate over the widely popular Please Call Me ...

As the Please Call Me inventor, Nkosana Makate, continues his battle for compensation, he faces another hurdle: a legal bill of nearly R13 million for one day’s arguments in the Constitutional Court.

The Constitutional Court’s recent costs order against Nkosana Kenneth Makate would result in the Please Call Me idea-man having to pay R13 million in legal fees, much of which will go to Vodacom. IOL ...

The drawn-out “please call me” saga between Vodacom and its former employee, Nkosana Makate, is headed back to the supreme court of appeal in the coming weeks. This is after the constitutional court ...