PayU Africa incident
PayU South Africa Service Degradation - Bank link/3rd party
PayU Africa experienced a major incident on May 14, 2025 affecting South Africa Card Acquiring ABSA and South Africa Card Acquiring Nedbank and 1 more component, lasting 2h 26m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
South Africa Card Acquiring ABSASouth Africa Card Acquiring NedbankSouth Africa Card Acquiring SBSASouth Africa Card Acquiring FNBSouth Africa RCS
Update timeline
- investigating May 14, 2025, 05:53 PM UTC
[South Africa] Card transactions are currently being affected. Engineers are investigating.
- identified May 14, 2025, 06:16 PM UTC
The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.
- monitoring May 14, 2025, 07:10 PM UTC
A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.
- resolved May 14, 2025, 08:19 PM UTC
This incident has been resolved.