Outage in Paystack
South Africa: Increased failure rate for Capitec Pay
Resolved Minor
August 27, 2026 - Started about 5 hours ago
- Lasted about 3 hours
Incident Report
Capitec Pay has been stable again since 7:10 SAST. We will continue to monitor.
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MONITORING
about 3 hours ago - at 08/28/2026 05:40AM
Capitec Pay has been stable again since 7:10 SAST. We will continue to monitor.
INVESTIGATING
about 5 hours ago - at 08/28/2026 03:18AM
We are seeing an increase rate of failure for Capitec Pay requests. The issue has been escalated to Capitec.
RESOLVED
about 5 hours ago - at 08/28/2026 04:02AM
Capitec Pay transactions are processing normally again.
INVESTIGATING
about 4 hours ago - at 08/28/2026 04:33AM
Capitec performance has degraded again.
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