PayFast experienced a major incident on August 7, 2025 affecting 3D Secure and Absa involved transactions and 1 more component, lasting —. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
3D SecureAbsa involved transactionsAmerican Express involved transactionsBidvest involved transactionsCapitec involved transactionsDiscovery involved transactionsFNB involved transactionsInvestec involved transactionsNedbank involved transactionsStandard Bank involved transactions
Update timeline
- resolved Aug 07, 2025, 01:55 PM UTC
There was a processing disruption on the Gateway platform from 13:55-14:03. During this time, users may have experienced trouble completing transactions. This has been resolved with full functionality to Gateway processing resuming at 14:03.