The Supreme Court has essentially ordered Vodacom to pay Makate a minimum of R28.99 billion

[Jan]

Vodacom has been ordered to pay Please Call Me idea-man R29 billion — minimum

South Africa’s Supreme Court of Appeal has ordered Vodacom to pay Kenneth Nkosana Makate a minimum of R29 billion for his Please Call Me idea.

Court documents, which MyBroadband has seen, show that the Supreme Court has essentially ordered Vodacom to pay Makate between R28.99 billion and R55.37 billion.

 

[Bliksis]

"essentially"

 

[Raphael123]

I would say pay him and move along but a corporate giant can delay this forever.

 

[Jan]

"essentially"

Yes, because the ruling is far more contrived, but this is what it amounts to...

The order of the high court is set aside and substituted with the following:

‘(a) The decision of the First Respondent delivered on 9 January 2019,
determining the compensation to be paid to the Applicant by the Second
Respondent, is reviewed and set aside;

(b) The decision referred to in paragraph 1 is substituted with a decision
that the applicant is entitled to be paid 5% – 7.5% of the total revenue of the
PCM product from March 2001 to date of judgment by the Second Respondent,
together with the mora interest thereon, alternatively interest in terms of Section
2A(5) of the Prescribed Rate of Interest Act, 55 of 1975 as amended, and that
the total revenue of the PCM product shall be that set out in Model 9A, 9B &
9BB submitted to the First Respondent by the Applicant (Annexure “NM30” –
“NM32” to the Supplementary Founding Affidavit)

 

[Bliksis]

More stiffies all around.

 

[KikzAzz]

Whats percentage is going to the judge?

I will bend the rules for 1%

 

[lordnokon]

Mofo... Well, if he gets anything close to that, well done to him and his team.

 

[gogga_]

This whole thing stinks of a compromised judge and brown packets under the table...........

 

[ShakeSpeer]

MTN should sue Makate now

 

[WalkWithMe]

This whole thing stinks of a compromised judge and brown packets under the table...........

It is a bench of judges including the concourt.
Vodacom are making this worse the longer they drag on

 

[Adenoid Hynkel]

"(b) The decision referred to in paragraph 1 is substituted with a decision
that the applicant is entitled to be paid 5% – 7.5% of the total revenue of the"

Revenue?

 

[Sideshow Bob]

I will bend the rules for 1%

Are you a judge though ?

 

[3WA]

Dumbass judges forgot to use our threads in their decision.

 

[konfab]

It is a bench of judges including the concourt.
Vodacom are making this worse the longer they drag on

Concourt never prescribed an amount. They ordered that Vodacom's CEO make a determination of compensation.

Vodacom's appeal is relatively simple, and that is for the concourt to just enforce its existing order.

 

[Vorastra]

Dumbass judges forgot to use our threads in their decision.

Honestly. Who do they think they are.
Do they not realise who we are.

 

[mypetcow]

It would be funny if now Vodacom finds a technicality and the case needs to be dropped. Good luck to him on getting a payout. I hope he actually does get one

 

[FiestaST]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1757356880697983007

 

[The Darkness]

It would be funny if now Vodacom finds a technicality and the case needs to be dropped. Good luck to him on getting a payout. I hope he actually does get one

I don't. He doesn't deserve it. Vodacom have a plan, otherwise they'd have paid him already. Watch and see...

 

[pstation]

Vodacom could have given him a R500 woolies gift card as a token of good faith for his idea (r500 actually bought a lot of stuff in 2000!) and he probably would have been happy with that.

Instead they promised him a irrational revenue sharing agreement and then later decided to pay him nothing and dared him to go to court. Now 23 years later they'll likely be paying at least R28,999,999,500 more than they should have.

 

[lkpat]

You see now, this is why he's like a dog with a bone on this one, because the courts are whetting his and his lawyer's appetites.
Back to appeal and then it's "OK Vodacom, your turn to decide what's appropriate".
Vodacom's lawyers getting rich here and state sponsored judges wasting everyone's tax money.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1757356880697983007

Quite.
It seems there's very much a vested interest by the state here.
Total conflict.

This whole thing stinks of a compromised judge and brown packets under the table...........

No need for brown packets when the state (read ANC) is looking at this very longingly.
Crooks everywhere.