Major government website outage — Police, National Treasury, and Presidency sites offline
Further testing revealed that most websites with the gov.za domain are down.
Some sites, including the national administration traffic information system — including its online portal — and Parliament websites, which both use the gov.za domain, remain unaffected by the outage. MyBroadband tested the sites using other browsers and alternative Internet connections, but they were still inaccessible.On 27 November 2022, scheduled downtime at Sita data centres tookA Sita spokesperson told MyBroadband that the downtime was required to execute maintenance and upgrades to allow the systems better handle load-shedding.In July 2022, several government websites using the domainThe outage was widespread, but interestingly, it also didn’t impact Natis and Parliament’s websites.
The outage was caused by a failure on both Sita’s primary and secondary links for its Cape Town and Centurion centres. We contacted the State Information Technology Agency for feedback regarding the cause of the outage and asked for an estimated restoration time.
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