Vodacom looks to settle ‘R40 billion’ Please Call Me saga out of court this week

Vodacom and former employee Kenneth Makate are set to hold talks this week to try and reach an out-of-court settlement over the Please Call Me saga.

Vodacom Group Ltd. and former employee Kenneth Makate plan to enter private talks to discuss his compensation for a popular call-back phone service he proposed more than two decades ago, hoping to reach an out-of-court settlement.

The case has gone back and forth for many years as Vodacom and Makate wrangle over compensation for the ‘Please Call Me’ idea he proposed to the company’s product-development team when he worked in the finance division in the 2000s.

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