It is not in dispute that Nkosana Makate is the inventor of Vodacom’s Please Call Me service. Vodacom, which benefited immensely from Makate’s invention, must pay him what is due. Continued attempts over the years to undermine this fact are possibly rooted in racism, that lingering ghost of apartheid.

Nigerian-British writer Ben Okri once said: “What is reality? Everybody’s reality is subjective; it’s conditioned by upbringing, ideas, temperament, religion, what’s happened to you.”..

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