PayU Africa incident

PayU South Africa Service Degradation - Bank link/3rd party

Minor Resolved View vendor source →

PayU Africa experienced a minor incident on February 16, 2026 affecting South Africa Card Acquiring ABSA and South Africa Card Acquiring Nedbank and 1 more component, lasting 3h 22m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
Feb 16, 2026, 02:28 PM UTC
Resolved
Feb 16, 2026, 05:50 PM UTC
Duration
3h 22m
Detected by Pingoru
Feb 16, 2026, 02:28 PM UTC

Affected components

South Africa Card Acquiring ABSASouth Africa Card Acquiring NedbankSouth Africa Card Acquiring SBSASouth Africa Card Acquiring FNBSouth Africa RCS

Update timeline

  1. investigating Feb 16, 2026, 02:28 PM UTC

    [South Africa] Card transaction are currently being affected. Engineers are investigating.

  2. monitoring Feb 16, 2026, 03:19 PM UTC

    We have noted recovery in transaction processing, and transactions are currently completing successfully. We will continue to monitor the environment.

  3. resolved Feb 16, 2026, 05:50 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.