PayU Africa incident
PayU South Africa Service Degradation of credit card transactions.
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Resolved after 12 hours 7 minutes, affecting South Africa Card Acquiring ABSA, on February 5, 2026.
A fix was applied to address the issue. Bank card transactions are processing normally.
Affected components
South Africa Card Acquiring ABSA
Update timeline
- investigating Feb 05, 2026, 07:21 AM UTC
[South Africa] Please note PayU is experiencing a degradation of service in its credit card transactions. Engineers are investigating to resolve as soon as possible.
- investigating Feb 05, 2026, 07:35 AM UTC
We are continuing to investigate this issue.
- resolved Feb 05, 2026, 07:29 PM UTC
A fix was applied to address the issue. Bank card transactions are processing normally.
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