The Please Call Me millions: Accusations fly
Court papers show how Nkosana Makate’s early funders turned against each other, trading conspiracy claims and alleging a hidden romance over who gets a cut.
The Please Call Me case, which has been ongoing for 18 years, has seen a series of accusations and legal disputes between various parties involved in funding the inventor Nkosana Makate’s fight against Vodacom. Among these disputes, allegations of a romantic relationship between Makate’s earliest funder, Chris Schoeman, and his current lawyer, Wilma Lubbe, surfaced in court papers.
Schoeman claimed that Black Rock Mining’s Errol Elsdon and Lubbe were plotting to oust Schoeman from a share of the 40% that Makate’s funding team was to receive in return for financing his case. Meanwhile, Schoeman himself alleged that there was no valid funding agreement between Makate and Raining Men, and that Elsdon and Röscher were not entitled to any rights under this agreement.
These claims and counter-claims were made between 2015 and 2018 while Makate’s case against Vodacom was still pending.
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