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Nkosana Makate will face his former backer, Errol Elsdon, in an arbitration hearing to oppose a claim against 40% of his settlement from Vodacom for his Please Call Me idea.
Nkosana Makate’s former backers, Black Rock Mining, say they’re ironically in a similar situation to the one Makate was in: fighting for someone to keep their word.
Please Call Me idea-man Nkosana Kenneth Makate says he was forced to take time away from a work conference at Sun City to swear to an affidavit and oppose a claim against his multimillion-rand settlement.
Please Call Me idea-man Nkosana Kenneth Makate has agreed to delay receiving 40% of his over R500-million settlement from Vodacom to resolve a claim from his former financial backers.
Nkosana Kenneth Makate is heading back to court to contest a claim for 40% of his multi-million-rand settlement with Vodacom for pitching the idea for a “Please Call Me” service to the company.
Please Call Me idea-man Nkosana Kenneth Makate will have to pay a substantial amount of tax on his over–R500 million settlement from Vodacom, two partners from Webber Wentzel Attorneys have said.
The man who invented, patented, and helped launch “Call Me” while on contract with MTN in November 2000, says Vodacom’s settlement with Nkosana Kenneth Makate is “absolutely unconscionable”.
In addition to saying that he was still working at his regular job, Makate countered speculation that Vodacom would reveal the value of the settlement they had agreed to for his idea.
Vodacom and Nkosana Kenneth Makate have settled the Please Call Me case that has dragged in South Africa’s courts since 2008.
Vodacom and Nkosana Kenneth Makate will return to the Supreme Court of Appeal in November 2025 for a re-hearing of the mobile operator’s challenge to a 2022 High Court judgment.