BLACKOUT MAP

Internet outage history

South Africa

Operational 20/20 hosts up since Oct 16, 2026 10:00 UTC

Every disruption Blackout Map has recorded in South Africa since monitoring began on October 16, 2026, with reported government shutdowns and submarine cable incidents.

Live status of South Africa RSS feed

KwaZulu-Natal — Operational · 3/3 hosts upWestern Cape — Operational · 3/3 hosts upGauteng — Operational · 13/13 hosts up
Regions right now Operational Degraded Partial outage Blackout Each dot is a state or province we measure separately, coloured by its status now; bigger dots have more hosts. The country is shaded in its overall status.
0incidents recorded
0total disruption
—longest incident
11outages measured since 2022
0reported shutdowns since 2019

Overview

Last 90 days

Worst status per day, last 90 days
Aug 2, 2026 Operational Degraded Partial outage Blackout Not monitored yet Today

Daily reachability

last 30 days
Oct 16Oct 23Oct 300%50%100%
Hosts uplowest hour

Our probes · hosts reachable

last 72 hours
Oct 28Oct 29Oct 300%50%100%

IODA · routes and active probing, % of normal

last 72 hours
Oct 28Oct 29Oct 300%50%100%
BGP routesActive probingIODA (Georgia Tech)

Latency from our server (Germany)

last 72 hours
Oct 28Oct 29Oct 300 ms150 ms300 ms
Latency25–75%

The same measurements as the live panel, per 30 minutes. Times in UTC.

Incidents

All incidents

our probes and IODA

No disruptions recorded in South Africa since monitoring started on October 16, 2026.

Attacks and context

Context only — they don't change the status above.

DDoS attacks aimed at South Africa · 7 days

Oct 24Oct 25Oct 26Oct 27Oct 28Oct 29Oct 300%50%100%
Network DDoSWeb attacksCloudflare Radar

Per hour; each line is relative to its own busiest hour of the week (100%). Context only — attacks never change a country's status.

Types
Mirai (UDP) Flood 47% · UDP Flood 41% · SYN Flood 4% · DNS Amplification 2%
Duration
68% longer than 1 h · 18% under 20 min
Size
90% under 500 Mbit/s · 0% over 10 Gbit/s
Web attacks from
AFRIHOST SP (PTY) 8% · Vodacom 8% · HERO TELECOMS (PTY) 7%

Routing incidents · 7 days · Cloudflare Radar

0 possible hijacks of networks in South Africa, 8+ route leaks involving it.

Long-term history

Before our monitoring: IODA archive

11 incidents · 4 blackouts · 3 partial outages

Outages in South Africa detected by IODA (Georgia Tech) between January 2022 and the start of our own monitoring: drops in the country's internet routes (BGP) or in its reachability from IODA's active probing, compared with the day before. Each is checked against IODA's signal; small dips are left out.

Started (UTC)DurationWorst levelEvidence
Jun 20, 2026 11:402 hours BlackoutIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 30% of normal
Dec 26, 2025 19:2030 min Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 74% of normal
Aug 10, 2025 07:3030 min DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 83% of normal
Mar 29, 2025 10:103 hours BlackoutIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 32% of normal
Mar 25, 2025 22:102 hours DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 85% of normal
Mar 25, 2025 20:101 hour DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 80% of normal
Mar 25, 2025 17:4030 min DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 88% of normal
Jul 6, 2024 11:0030 min Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 74% of normal
Mar 14, 2024 10:404 hours Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 74% of normal
Nov 19, 2023 12:402 hours BlackoutIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 19% of normal
Jul 2, 2022 05:1030 min BlackoutIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 48% of normal

Government shutdowns and blocks

since 2019

The Internet Society Pulse tracker has no recorded government shutdowns or blocks in South Africa since 2019.

Provided by Internet Society.

Submarine cable incidents

No submarine cable incidents recorded for South Africa.

Cable incidents: GeoCables (CC BY 4.0). Context only — they never change a country's status.