Half of Makate's payout for Please Call Me idea to be kept in a trust‚ court rules

14 June 2016 - 16:17
By Nomahlubi Jordaan

Half of the payout that Please Call Me inventor Nkosana Makate will receive from Vodacom should be kept in a trust pending the outcome of an arbitration. The arbitration‚ which is yet to be set down‚ is to resolve a dispute between Makate and Christiaan Schoeman‚ who claims that he and his company Raining Men paid for Makate’s legal fees when he took the cellular phone giant to court for using his "please call me" idea without compensating him as per an oral agreement he had reached with the co...

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