Hard to determine âPlease Call Meâ compensation - advocate Share Pretoria - While the issue of what is reasonable compensation for a brilliant idea is the essence of Please Call Me inventor Nkosana Makate's case, it's like asking what is the length of a piece of string â there is no obvious answer. This is the argument of advocate Wim Trengove SC, acting on behalf of Vodacom. The cellphone giant is adamant that the R47 million offered to Makate is âover generousâ. The counsel acting for Vodacom argued on the third day of the Gauteng High Court, Pretoria, proceedings that Judge Wendy Hughes could only overturn this amount if she could find that Vodacom chief executive Shameel Joosub acted unreasonably when he decided that this was fair compensation.