PayU Africa incident
PayU South Africa Service Degradation - Capitec Pay
PayU Africa experienced a critical incident on August 1, 2025 affecting South Africa Capitec Pay, lasting 1h 57m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
South Africa Capitec Pay
Update timeline
- investigating Aug 01, 2025, 03:15 PM UTC
[South Africa] Please note PayU is experiencing a degradation of service on Capitec Pay transactions. We have reached out to Capitec and are assisting where we can.
- identified Aug 01, 2025, 03:38 PM UTC
The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.
- resolved Aug 01, 2025, 05:13 PM UTC
This incident has been resolved.