The Constitutional Court has granted Vodacom’s request to hear its appeal against a Supreme Court ruling in favour of Nkosana Kenneth Makate.
The Constitutional Court says it will hear Vodacom’s appeal against a Supreme Court ruling in favour of Please Call Me idea-man Nkosana Kenneth Makate.Vodacom filed papers in South Africa’s apex court in February after the Supreme Court of Appeal ordered it to pay Makate 5%–7.5% revenue share over 18 years, with interest.
The dispute between Makate and Vodacom dates back to 2007, when he sent letters of demand to the company stating he was promised compensation for his idea.While a trainee accountant at Vodacom, Makate came up with the idea of sending a missed call to someone’s phone without airtime.show that he pitched the idea to his boss and wrote a memo about it on 21 November 2000. He called it the “buzzing option”.
At that point, the dispute had already been in South Africa’s legal system for eight years, with the High Court and Supreme Court initially ruling against Makate. Vodacom also argued that even if there was such an agreement, Geissler had no authority to commit the company to any compensation, or even a discussion about potential compensation with the CEO.
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