Vodacom CEO Shameel Joosub's previous determination of R47 million was deemed 'unreasonable'.Vodacom has suffered yet another defeat after the Supreme Court of Appeal’s ruling in favour of ‘Please Call Me’ inventorIn a 66-page judgment penned by Judge Ashton Schippers, the Supreme Court reviewed and set aside Vodacom’s decision to offer R47 million to Makate as compensation for creating the Please Call Me.
“The first respondent shall finalise his determination within 30 calendar days of the date of this order,” the court ruled.Vodacom had partly succeeded in its appeal as the court found that Makate failed to establish some irregularities in Joosub’s original R47 million determination of reasonable compensation for the Please Call Me idea.
“Vodacom has been partially successful in its appeal. It demonstrated, save for the irregularity relating to the duration of the contract, that the High Court erred in upholding all Mr Makate’s review grounds.