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Please Call Me saga: Vodacom says it won’t give financial records to Makate as it doesn’t have them

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The group was ordered by the North Gauteng High Court’s Judge Jody Kollapen two months ago to give Please Call Me inventor Nkosana Makate key documents detailing financial and contractual data spanning 18 years. TheStar_news

Vodacom has stated it has no duty to comply with a court order requiring it to furnish past financial documents it no longer has in its possession.

This was a mini-victory for Makate, who needed the key documents for his bid to prove that Vodacom owed him more than R47million for his pioneering invention.It has argued that the order should be varied on grounds that it no longer had many of the documents in its possession. The conundrum for Vodacom was that interlocutory orders were not appealable. It has now brought a variation application.

 

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