In a historic judgment, outgoing Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Madlanga delivered his last ruling at the Constitutional Court of South Africa, involving the long-running dispute between Nkosana Makate ...

As news about the “Please Call Me” secretive settlement was streaming, many wondered about the settlement amount. As someone who covered the “Please Call Me” matter, I reflected on this moment and its ...

'Please Call Me' inventor Nkosana Makate. Vodacom and Nkosana Makate are eagerly awaiting the handing down of the Constitutional Court (ConCourt) judgement on the ‘Please Call Me’ (PCM) matter, which ...

Ari Kahn, the man who invented, patented, and helped launch “Call Me” while on contract with MTN in November 2000, says Vodacom’s settlement with Nkosana Kenneth Makate is “absolutely unconscionable”.

After roughly two decades of legal warfare, public spectacle, corporate brinkmanship and constitutional detours, the long-running battle between Vodacom and Nkosana Kenneth Makate has finally come to ...

Nkosana Kenneth Makate says he plans to continue working at the South African Local Government Association, where he is a financial controller. Vodacom and Makate announced on Wednesday that they had ...

Nkosana Makate leaves a Johannesburg court in August 2008 during the long-running Please Call Me saga. (Photo by Tshepo Kekana/Sowetan/Gallo Images/Getty Images) In late 2000, telecoms engineer Ari ...