Sim Locking

am i in the right place is there anybody out there amongst all the crackberries that can help me unlock my 8700v it was a gift from a freind who turns out to be technically challenged he left it with me and its locked to vodaphone which is no good to me in South Africa.

You have the subject of this post as SIM unlocking, but you're really talking about the device, right? It's a Vodafone device, but what carrier do you want to use it on?

GMS Source should be able to assist; if it's the device you're trying to unlock...