Please Call Me Back at SCA

TO AND FRO: CONCOURT RETURNS TWO-DECADE LEGAL BATTLE TO APPEAL COURT

- Molefe Seeletsa

Please Call Me inventor Nkosana Makate says he had anticipated a different outcome after the Constitutional Court (ConCourt) ordered that his nearly two-decade legal battle with Vodacom be returned to the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) for reconsideration.

Yesterday, the ConCourt sided with Vodacom in its application for leave to appeal against the February 2024 SCA ruling.

That judgment had set aside Vodacom CEO Shameel Joosub's compensation offer of R47 million to Makate, which he rejected in 2019.

Instead, the SCA ruled that Makate was entitled to 5-7.5% plus interest of the total revenue Vodacom had generated from the Please Call Me service since its inception in 2001.

Vodacom subsequently brought the matter before the ConCourt for appeal, which was heard in November last year.