Top South Africa Court Upholds Vodacom Please Call Me Appeal

South Africa’s top court upheld Vodacom Group Ltd.’s appeal against another court’s ruling that it pay a former employee billions of rands in compensation for an idea to develop a popular call-back service that he proposed more than two decades ago.

The Constitutional Court ordered that a differently constituted panel of the Supreme Court of Appeal hears the case again, Judge Mbuyiseli Madlanga said Thursday.