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  1. Hanno Labuschagne

    DeepSeek suffers unusual outage

    DeepSeek suffers unusual outage DeepSeek’s chatbot suffered a major outage of more than seven hours overnight in China, forcing the AI pioneer to deploy several updates to rectify the issue. Users began reporting faults on Sunday evening, according to Downdetector. The startup’s own status...
  3. Hanno Labuschagne

    WIOCC route leak causes Internet disruption in SA

    WIOCC route leak causes Internet disruption in SA A Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) route leak on the network of a major undersea cable firm connecting South Africa to the rest of the world was behind a recent local Internet outage. Outage tracking website Downdetector showed a surge in reports...
    • Hanno Labuschagne
    • Thread
    • border gateway protocol (bgp) downdetector internet submarine cables undersea cables west indian ocean cable company (wiocc)
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: Broadband and IT News
  4. RedViking

    Microsoft Azure Down: Server Outage Impacts Multiple Services Including 365, Teams, Store, Entra

    https://www.timesnownews.com/technology-science/microsoft-azure-down-server-outage-impacts-multiple-services-including-365-teams-store-entra-article-153072114 https://azure.status.microsoft/en-us/status
    • RedViking
    • Thread
    • azure front door azure portal cloud outage cloud services downdetector microsoft 365 microsoft azure microsoft teams october 2025 outage service disruption
    • Replies: 21
    • Forum: Storage, Hosting and Cloud Computing
  5. Hanno Labuschagne

    Microsoft Outlook issues in SA & Europe

    Microsoft Outlook issues in SA & Europe Microsoft 365 users in South Africa have reported experiencing problems with sending and receiving emails in Outlook. The Microsoft 365 Status account on Twitter/X has confirmed that technicians are investigating an issue in Europe.
  6. Hanno Labuschagne

    Capitec app offline

    Capitec app offline Capitec is experiencing a major technical outage, with customers unable to sign into its mobile banking app or perform transactions. Downdetector showed a steep increase in user reports of issues with Capitec from around 16:00. The majority of reports were related to issues...
  7. Hanno Labuschagne

    Discovery Bank mobile app and online banking down

    Discovery Bank mobile app and online banking down Discovery Bank's mobile app and online banking platforms are experiencing a major service outage on Wednesday, 28 May 2025. Online outage tracking website Downdetector showed a gradual rise in user reports of problems accessing Discovery's...
  8. Hanno Labuschagne

    Twitter users hit by more bugs

    Twitter users hit by more bugs Twitter users were forced out of the platform and had trouble logging back in on Monday. More than 2,000 outages were reported, according to Downdetector. [Bloomberg]
  9. Jan

    MTN subscribers still reporting network problems

    MTN network problems continue into second day Several MTN customers have continued to report issues with their Internet connectivity for a second day following an upgrade-induced fault on the operator's network. Scores of customers reported that they could not use mobile data or had...
  10. Jan

    MTN data network downtime - 22 November 2022

    Big MTN data outage MTN customers have reported they cannot access the Internet on the operator's mobile and fixed-LTE networks for several hours on Tuesday morning. MTN South Africa's Downdetector page showed a significant increase in reports of issues on its network from around 07:00 AM.
  11. Hanno Labuschagne

    WhatsApp outage - 25 October 2022

    WhatsApp is down Thousands of WhatsApp users across the world have reported they were unable to send and receive messages on Tuesday morning, suggesting the popular chat platform was suffering a major outage. The WhatsApp Downdetector page showed a surge in user reports in South Africa and...
  12. Jan

    Outage on Standard Bank Internet and business banking

    Standard Bank Internet and business banking offline Standard Bank's Internet banking and Business Online platforms were hit by an outage on Tuesday morning. In an update on its service status page at 11:04 AM, the bank confirmed it was aware of an issue which might leave users unable to access...
  13. Jan

    Logging into Zoom gives HTTP 502 and HTTP 504 server errors

    Major Zoom outage Video conferencing platform Zoom is experiencing issues with its login server, which presents an error when attempting to sign in. A MyBroadband staff member noticed the problem when signing into their account and was presented with an HTTP 502 error and an HTTP 504 error...
  14. Jan

    Twitter goes offline globally

    Twitter hit by major global outage Twitter was hit by a global outage on Thursday, 14 July 2022, resulting in users being signed out of their accounts and unable to log in after that. Users took to Downdetector to report the outage, which had accumulated nearly 55,000 reports in around 45 minutes.
  15. Hanno Labuschagne

    FNB suffering major downtime

    FNB suffering major downtime FNB has been hit by a major outage affecting its Internet banking, mobile app, and card transactions. Downdetector showed a surge in reports from around noon on Friday.
  16. Jan

    Major outage knocks South African national government departments offline

    Major outage knocks South African national government departments offline A major outage has knocked several South African national government departments offline. E-mail services and websites were affected by multiple cable breaks on the primary and backup links the State IT Agency uses to...
    • Jan
    • Thread
    • downdetector gov.za state information technology agency (sita)
    • Replies: 25
    • Forum: Broadband and IT News
  17. J

    GitHub down

    I can't access Github for about a week now. I am in KZN and Downdetector seems to indicate a problem with Github in the Durban area. How can such a random problem exist. Github worlwide seems to have issues. Am I correct? What is the problem. Anyone aware of something??
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