A man checks his mobile phone. South Africa's Constitutional Court ordered telco company Vodacom to pay Mr Kenneth Nkosana Makate on April 26, 2016 for his Please Call Me idea. PHOTO | FILE | NATION MEDIA GROUP
The judges directed that the two sides must negotiate in good faith and should not “enter into those negotiations just to go through the motions.”
If they reach a settlement within this time, it would be a long road travelled by the South African accountant who developed the idea while working as a trainee at the South African telco.
Mr Makate had initially demanded a 15 per cent cut on revenues earned from the service but his employers rejected his request.
The inventor of the popular ‘Please Call Me’ service is set to become a millionaire after South Africa’s highest court ordered his former employers to negotiate a compensation package with him.
In a case that has dragged on for nearly a decade, Mr Kenneth Nkosana Makate had sued South African telecom giant Vodacom demanding compensation for the idea behind Please Call Me.
