A Vodacom store in Menlyn Park Shopping Centre in Pretoria. Images taken on Thursday, November 9 2023. Pic: Waldo Swiegers / Bloomberg News The case has gone back and forth for many years as Vodacom and Makate wrangle over compensation for the call-back service idea he proposed to the company’s product-development team when he worked in its finance division in the 2000s.
That amount determined by the Supreme Court of Appeal would have “devastating consequences” for the mobile-network operator, its employees and its investors, Johannesburg-based Vodacom said in papers filed in the Constitutional Court in February.