PayFast experienced a critical incident on November 6, 2025 affecting Apple Pay and 3D Secure and 1 more component, lasting 1h 40m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Apple Pay3D SecureAbsa involved transactionsMobicredMomopayAmerican Express involved transactionsBidvest involved transactionsPayPalGateway Core3Capitec involved transactions
Update timeline
- identified Nov 06, 2025, 08:44 AM UTC
Processing via Gateway is currently down. We are urgently investigating the issue.
- monitoring Nov 06, 2025, 09:47 AM UTC
Gateway Processing has resumed, we continue to monitor for any problems.
- resolved Nov 06, 2025, 10:21 AM UTC
This problem affecting Gateway Processing has been resolved.