#PleaseCallMeMovement take to the streets
A group of protestors have gathered outside Vodaworld in Midrand on Thursday to demand that the cell phone giant pay Please Call Me inventor Nkosana Makate.
The Please Call Me Movement gave the company a 10am deadline to pay Makate what he is due.
The company is stuck in a legal battle with its former employee over how much he should be compensated for coming up with the 'Please Call Me' messaging function.
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In 2016 the Constitutional Court ordered Vodacom and Makate to negotiate and to agree on reasonable compensation.
Vodacom has put an offer on the table which Makate rejected, calling it an "insult".
The mobile giant is receiving even further backlash on social media after it served Panyaza Lesufi with a cease-and-desist order in his personal capacity, to stop the Gauteng education MEC from commenting on the matter.
#PleaseCallMe | More demonstrators have arrived outside VodaWorld in Midrand. pic.twitter.com/rug9PFNIV0
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#PleaseCallMe | More demonstrators have arrived outside VodaWorld in Midrand.
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Some demonstrators are calling for the gate of VodaWorld to be opened.
Police are monitoring the protest. pic.twitter.com/xblg9MjGxw
#PleaseCallMe | Demonstrators protesting outside outside VodaWorld in Midrand.
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VIDEO: Sensitive language. pic.twitter.com/iZCGrQYcIF
#PleaseCallMe | Please Call Me Movement’s Modise Setoaba says they want Vodacom to pay Nkosana Makate the inventor of Please Call Me. pic.twitter.com/IUo0pljFx3
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#PleaseCallMe | PHOTOS: Demonstrators outside VodaWorld offices. pic.twitter.com/6gSyz4GhFn
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#PleaseCallMe | PHOTOS: Demonstrators outside VodaWorld offices pic.twitter.com/4ZLjDJTxRR
— Jacaranda News (@JacaNews) January 31, 2019