Current answer
Payfast experienced a major incident: GW Processing Impacted. ServiceAlert observed recovery on Sep 29, 2026.
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Incident Lifecycle
Affected Components
Absa involved transactions
American Express involved transactions
Bidvest involved transactions
Capitec involved transactions
Discovery involved transactions
FNB involved transactions
Gateway PayHost
Investec involved transactions
Gateway PayWeb3
Standard Bank involved transactions
Incident Timeline
Monitoring
A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.
Sep 29, 2026 at 10:43 AM UTC
Investigating
We are continuing to investigate this issue.
Sep 29, 2026 at 9:42 AM UTC
Investigating
We are currently investigating processing issues for cards
Sep 29, 2026 at 9:41 AM UTC
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