Outage in Payfast
Absa Pay failures
Major
April 18, 2026 - Started about 21 hours ago
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Incident Report
A problem with Absa Pay transactions on the Aggregation and Gateway platforms has been identified.
We are in contact with External Partners on the matter.
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MONITORING
about 19 hours ago - at 04/18/2026 09:08AM
Absa Pay is currently disabled as the problem is being attended to.
IDENTIFIED
about 21 hours ago - at 04/18/2026 06:32AM
A problem with Absa Pay transactions on the Aggregation and Gateway platforms has been identified.
We are in contact with External Partners on the matter.
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