Nkosana Makate, the man behind Vodacoms Please Call Me idea, cancelled a legal backing contract in 2015 with the wrong company, and his deal with British Virgin Islands company, Black Rock Mining, which is claiming entitlement to 40 of his payout, still stands, the company argues in court papers.
An urgent application initiated by Errol Elsdon, former director of Black Rock Mining, will be heard on Tuesday in the Johannesburg high court.
Makate settled with the telecom giant earlier this month, after nearly two decades of litigation, for Vodacom to compensate him for his Please Call Me idea.