A Los Angeles couple turned their grief into a public outpouring of love as they wheeled their terminally ill dog, Gracie, along her favorite stretch of Sunset Boulevard for what they called her “best ...

Litigation funder Black Rock Mining has failed in its attempt to put a freeze on 40% of Please Call Me founder Kenneth Makate’s winnings from Vodacom. On Monday (8 December 2025), Judge Don Mahon of ...

Annaliese Holland, diagnosed with a rare autoimmune disorder, has chosen voluntary assisted dying after a lifetime of relentless pain and organ failure. Despite years of fighting and surviving sepsis ...

Stephen Grootes interviews to Jan Vermeulen, Editor at MyBroadband, about the urgent court bid by UK investor Errol Elsdon, who claims Black Rock Mining is entitled to 40% of Nkosana Makate’s Vodacom ...

Only a few can fight a 17-year-long legal battle with no financial backing, and Please Call Me inventor Nkosana Makate is not one of them. He was able to take on telecommunication giant Vodacom for ...

Vodacom has seen its South African operations take a hit after settling with Kenneth Makate in the Please Call Me saga. However, depite an R874 million knock—including the once-off settlement—the ...

It's being reported on Thursday (6 November 2025) that the apparent inventor of the Please Call Me service, Nkosana Makate, is likely being paid out hundreds of millions of rand by former employer ...

"Shareholders are hereby advised that on 4 November 2025, the Vodacom board approved a settlement agreement and the matter was settled by the parties out of court," Vodacom said in a statement on the ...

Vodacom has announced that it has finally settled the Please Call Me matter with idea-man Kenneth Makate, reaching an out-of-court agreement—the details of which were not revealed. In a late-day ...

As the Please Call Me inventor, Nkosana Makate, continues his battle for compensation, he faces another hurdle: a legal bill of nearly R13 million for one day’s arguments in the Constitutional Court.

The Constitutional Court’s recent costs order against Nkosana Kenneth Makate would result in the Please Call Me idea-man having to pay R13 million in legal fees, much of which will go to Vodacom. IOL ...

Rep. Madeleine Dean (D-PA) confronted Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) in the halls of Congress and asked him what House Republicans are doing to rein in President Donald Trump. During the exchange, ...