PayU Africa incident

PayU South Africa Service Degradation - Capitec Pay

Resolved after 3 hours 28 minutes, affecting South Africa Capitec Pay, on August 20, 2025.

monitoring Aug 20, 2025, 05:07 PM UTC

Update from Capitec: Please note that the Capitec App issue has been resolved. The team will be continue to monitor and will be on standby ready to support. We have noted recovery, Capitec Pay transaction being procressed successfully.

Started
Aug 20, 2025, 02:00 PM UTC
Resolved
Aug 20, 2025, 05:29 PM UTC
Duration
3h 28m
Detected by Pingoru
Aug 20, 2025, 02:00 PM UTC

Affected components

South Africa Capitec Pay

Update timeline

  1. identified Aug 20, 2025, 02:37 PM UTC

    Capitec has confirmed that theis bank App is down, this affects the processing of Capitec Pay transactions.

  2. identified Aug 20, 2025, 04:09 PM UTC

    Update from Capitec: Please note that the Capitec App is still down. All teams are actively working on the issue and we will update accordingly. Note the time and impacts outlined below.

  3. monitoring Aug 20, 2025, 05:07 PM UTC

    Update from Capitec: Please note that the Capitec App issue has been resolved. The team will be continue to monitor and will be on standby ready to support. We have noted recovery, Capitec Pay transaction being procressed successfully.

  4. resolved Aug 20, 2025, 05:29 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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