PayFast experienced a major incident on August 4, 2025 affecting Capitec Pay and Capitec Pay, lasting 1h 3m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Capitec PayCapitec Pay
Update timeline
- identified Aug 04, 2025, 09:27 AM UTC
A problem with transactions for Capitec Pay has been identified affecting both Aggregation Instant EFT and Gateway SiD. We are in contact with External Partners on the matter.
- monitoring Aug 04, 2025, 10:30 AM UTC
A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.
- resolved Aug 04, 2025, 10:31 AM UTC
This incident has been resolved.