Please Call Me

The apex court has given clarity to the meaning of ‘duty of proper consideration’

The Please Call Me case outcome highlights the justice gap, favouring corporate power over individuals and undermining grassroots innovation and social transformation

Operators must work together — if each network picks which sites to zero-rate, access to information will be determined by the colour of a person’s sim card

The former public protector has urged the mobile company to ‘do the right thing’ by resolving the impasse with the inventor of the phone service

Vodacom claims to have reached a settlement with Nkosana Makate but he has refuted these claims

Vodacom approached the High Court to seek an interdict to prohibit Nkosana Makate from disclosing any information to outside parties

New ‘sideshow’ stalls Nkosana Makate’s negotiation with Vodacom.

Cash-strapped cellphone users are recharging for as little as R2, as pressure mounts for free SMSes.

The high-profile case against Vodacom has cast a spotlight on litigation financiers.

Rebecca Davis interviews Nkosana Makate, the originator of Vodacom’s free messaging concept, who’s won his 15-year battle against the cellphone giant.

The financing of the "Please Call Me" litigation is the first of its kind in South Africa. But why are South Africans so captivated by the case?

Sterling-Rand has emerged as plaintiff Nkosana Makate’s financial backer in the Vodacom Please Call Me case.

Nkosana Makate is now waiting on judgment after his case against his former employer over the invention of its Please Call Me service closed.

Alan Knott-Craig made his first appearance in court in the case brought against Vodacom about the invention of the Please Call Me.

A man claiming that he invented the Please Call Me has been vindicated after Vodacom failed to have the case scrapped, says Business Report.