Vodacom and Nkosana Makate have settled the years-long 'Please Call Me' battle out of court. In an announcement to shareholders this evening, Vodacom says the legal dispute has been settled and, as ...

Despite Please Call Me inventor Nkosana Makate stating that his quiet, out-of-court settlement with Vodacom to resolve the 17-year running legal battle is confidential, South Africans who have been ...

As news about the “Please Call Me” secretive settlement was streaming, many wondered about the settlement amount. As someone who covered the “Please Call Me” matter, I reflected on this moment and its ...

Vodacom and Nkosana Kenneth Makate will return to the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) on 18 November 2025 for a re-hearing of the mobile operator’s challenge to a 2022 ruling of the Pretoria High Court.

Vodacom and Nkosana Kenneth Makate have settled the Please Call Me case, which has been dragging in South Africa’s courts since 2008, for an undisclosed amount. “The matter has been settled by the ...

The two-decade saga surrounding Nkosana Makate — the man who claims to have discovered the Please Call Me “idea” when he joined Vodacom as a trainee accountant — has yet to be put to bed. On 31 July ...

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 ...

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 been using the Please Call Me invention for 25 years. Vodacom and Nkosana Makate have settled the years-long 'Please Call Me' battle out of court. In an announcement to shareholders this ...

Vodacom and Kenneth Makate have finally settled the Please Call Me matter out of court. Vodacom has agreed to pay Makate an undisclosed amount. The case has been dragging on since 2018, when Makate ...