PayU Africa incident
PayU South Africa Service Degradation - Discovery Miles
PayU Africa experienced a major incident on May 19, 2025 affecting South Africa DiscoveryMiles, lasting 8h 45m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Update timeline
- investigating May 19, 2025, 07:30 AM UTC
[PayU South Africa] Discovery Miles transactions are currently being affected. Engineers are investigating with Discovery.
- identified May 19, 2025, 07:57 AM UTC
Discovery has identified a issue and are working urgently to address it. We will monitor and give feedback as we receive news.
- identified May 19, 2025, 11:39 AM UTC
The problem is still persisting. No further info from Discovery who is still trying to restore their services.
- monitoring May 19, 2025, 01:32 PM UTC
We have received confirmation from Discovery that the systems are back up. We are seeing recovery on side too. We will continue to monitor.
- monitoring May 19, 2025, 02:28 PM UTC
We are continuing to monitor for any further issues.
- resolved May 19, 2025, 04:16 PM UTC
This incident has been resolved.