PayU Africa incident
PayU South Africa Service Degradation - Capitec Pay
PayU Africa experienced a major incident on August 21, 2025 affecting South Africa Capitec Pay, lasting 35m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
South Africa Capitec Pay
Update timeline
- investigating Aug 21, 2025, 01:16 PM UTC
[South Africa] Capitec Pay transactions are currently being affected. Engineers are investigating.
- monitoring Aug 21, 2025, 01:27 PM UTC
Processing seem to have stabilise. We will continue to monitor.
- monitoring Aug 21, 2025, 01:27 PM UTC
We are continuing to monitor for any further issues.
- resolved Aug 21, 2025, 01:51 PM UTC
This incident has been resolved.