The EFF has stated it will destroy Vodacom stores unless the company pays Please Call Me “inventor”\u00a0Nkosana Makate for his idea.<\/p>\n
The\u00a0EFF\u2019s Fanie Sibeko said: “What we did to H&M, we can also do it here at Vodacom.” This was in reference to the EFF trashing\u00a0H&M stores in South Africa earlier this year.<\/p>\n
Makate and Vodacom have been in negotiations since 2016 over the matter, after the Constitutional Court ordered that Vodacom compensate Makate for its use of the Please Call Me.<\/p>\n
The figure Makate was pursuing was reported to be as high as R10 billion – based on a compensation amount of 15c for ever rand of revenue the service generated.<\/p>\n
The dispute between Makate and Vodacom has made headlines several times over the past two years, but Makate and Vodacom recently reached an agreement<\/strong><\/a> where neither party would disclose any information about their settlement negotiations.<\/p>\n The EFF has now stated Vodacom must “give what is due” to Makate, according to a report by Jacaranda FM<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n The statement was made after a group of supporters gathered at Vodacom\u2019s headquarters in Midrand on Wednesday.<\/p>\n According to the EFF,\u00a0Makate must be paid\u00a015% of the revenue Vodacom made from the service.<\/p>\n \u201cYou must give what is due to him. It is a problem with an African child when you need to pay them,\u201d said Sibeko, according to Jacaranda FM.<\/p>\n Vodacom did not immediately reply to a request for comment.<\/p>\n The EFF has stated it will destroy Vodacom stores unless the company pays the Please Call Me “inventor”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":232631,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40380],"tags":[21797,41],"class_list":["post-268871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-eff","tag-vodacom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268871"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268871"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":268873,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268871\/revisions\/268873"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Take down Vodacom<\/h3>\n
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