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Incident record · South Africa

Internet connectivity disruption in South Africa

Type
disruption
Status
active
Severity
critical
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Source summary

IODA detected significant connectivity drop in South Africa. 3 critical alerts recorded.

Open incident JSON
Reported anomaly rate
11.3%

Source-defined signal; not a universal test-failure percentage.

Source measurement count
3

The record’s count can represent aggregate inputs or alerts.

Incident confidence
67%

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Follow the evidence

3 linked records.

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Linked observation dates

3 dated · 0 without a verified timezone
IODA3 linked records
Jul 29, 2026 · 21:05 UTCJul 29, 2026 · 21:10 UTC

Each point is a linked record. Horizontal position shows observation time; stacking separates nearby points. The full records below provide the values. This is not a measured outage-duration chart.

Upstream claims are attributed to their source. Multiple records or source names do not by themselves establish independent corroboration.

IODA3 records · open evidence

outage · critical

ioda:alert:ping-slash24:region:4619:1785359400

IODA detected critical level outage for Northern Cape

Upstream claim · IODA
Signal value
0.217391
Signal baseline
115
Evidence confidence
65%
Link confidence
80%

Why it is linked: Same country and date, critical level IODA alert

Retrieved
2026-07-30 00:00:03.174483 · timezone unspecified
Open upstream source
Complete evidence record
{
  "asn": null,
  "blockingMethod": null,
  "confidence": 0.65,
  "continent": "Africa",
  "countryCode": "ZA",
  "domain": null,
  "domainCategory": null,
  "id": 270455573,
  "kind": "alert",
  "linkConfidence": 0.8,
  "linkReason": "Same country and date, critical level IODA alert",
  "observedAt": "2026-07-29T21:10:00Z",
  "probeNodeId": null,
  "regionCode": "4619",
  "retrievedAt": "2026-07-30T00:00:03.174483",
  "riskTier": 4,
  "signalBaseline": 115,
  "signalLevel": "critical",
  "signalType": "outage",
  "signalValue": 0.21739130434782608,
  "source": "ioda",
  "sourceRef": "ioda:alert:ping-slash24:region:4619:1785359400",
  "sourceUrl": "https://ioda.inetintel.cc.gatech.edu/country/ZA",
  "unSubregion": "Southern Africa",
  "upstreamCause": null,
  "upstreamClaim": "IODA detected critical level outage for Northern Cape",
  "upstreamSeverity": "critical"
}

outage · critical

ioda:alert:bgp:region:4622:1785359100

IODA detected critical level outage for Orange Free State

Upstream claim · IODA
Signal value
0.010403
Signal baseline
3,749
Evidence confidence
65%
Link confidence
80%

Why it is linked: Same country and date, critical level IODA alert

Retrieved
2026-07-30 00:00:03.174483 · timezone unspecified
Open upstream source
Complete evidence record
{
  "asn": null,
  "blockingMethod": null,
  "confidence": 0.65,
  "continent": "Africa",
  "countryCode": "ZA",
  "domain": null,
  "domainCategory": null,
  "id": 270455563,
  "kind": "alert",
  "linkConfidence": 0.8,
  "linkReason": "Same country and date, critical level IODA alert",
  "observedAt": "2026-07-29T21:05:00Z",
  "probeNodeId": null,
  "regionCode": "4622",
  "retrievedAt": "2026-07-30T00:00:03.174483",
  "riskTier": 4,
  "signalBaseline": 3749,
  "signalLevel": "critical",
  "signalType": "outage",
  "signalValue": 0.010402774073086157,
  "source": "ioda",
  "sourceRef": "ioda:alert:bgp:region:4622:1785359100",
  "sourceUrl": "https://ioda.inetintel.cc.gatech.edu/country/ZA",
  "unSubregion": "Southern Africa",
  "upstreamCause": null,
  "upstreamClaim": "IODA detected critical level outage for Orange Free State",
  "upstreamSeverity": "critical"
}

outage · critical

ioda:alert:bgp:region:4619:1785359100

IODA detected critical level outage for Northern Cape

Upstream claim · IODA
Signal value
0.111969
Signal baseline
259
Evidence confidence
65%
Link confidence
80%

Why it is linked: Same country and date, critical level IODA alert

Retrieved
2026-07-30 00:00:03.174483 · timezone unspecified
Open upstream source
Complete evidence record
{
  "asn": null,
  "blockingMethod": null,
  "confidence": 0.65,
  "continent": "Africa",
  "countryCode": "ZA",
  "domain": null,
  "domainCategory": null,
  "id": 270455571,
  "kind": "alert",
  "linkConfidence": 0.8,
  "linkReason": "Same country and date, critical level IODA alert",
  "observedAt": "2026-07-29T21:05:00Z",
  "probeNodeId": null,
  "regionCode": "4619",
  "retrievedAt": "2026-07-30T00:00:03.174483",
  "riskTier": 4,
  "signalBaseline": 259,
  "signalLevel": "critical",
  "signalType": "outage",
  "signalValue": 0.11196911196911197,
  "source": "ioda",
  "sourceRef": "ioda:alert:bgp:region:4619:1785359100",
  "sourceUrl": "https://ioda.inetintel.cc.gatech.edu/country/ZA",
  "unSubregion": "Southern Africa",
  "upstreamCause": null,
  "upstreamClaim": "IODA detected critical level outage for Northern Cape",
  "upstreamSeverity": "critical"
}
Source-reported corroboration

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{
  "description": "Single source: ioda",
  "evidenceCount": 3,
  "level": "low",
  "score": 0.6,
  "sourceCount": 1,
  "sources": [
    "ioda"
  ]
}

Declared incident sources: IODA.

This record does not list two distinct sources. Treat it as a single-source or uncorroborated record.

Scope and attribution

What the record names.

Methodology

Affected services

No services named.

Incident mechanism

Infrastructure outage

Individual evidence may carry more specific methods. Those do not automatically describe the entire incident.

Affected domains · 0

Domains named by the source record. Each link opens country-specific OONI measurements; a named domain is not a blanket national-block verdict.

No domains named.

Networks and evidence attribution

ASNs named by this source record: None listed.

This aggregate describes fields literally present in linked evidence. It does not identify who caused an event or prove intent.

{
  "asns_attributed": 0,
  "domains_attributed": 0,
  "methods": [
    {
      "evidence_count": 3,
      "method": "outage"
    }
  ],
  "note": "Aggregated from this incident's linked evidence rows — only domains, ASNs, and blocking methods the evidence literally records are shown, with the per-item evidence count. No per-domain/per-ASN attribution is present in the linked evidence for this incident (e.g. country/ASN-level outage signals).",
  "sources": [
    "ioda"
  ],
  "top_asns": [],
  "top_domains": []
}
What this record cannot establish

Measurements alone do not attribute an event to a government, ISP or another actor, and do not establish intent. An outage or anomalous result can have several explanations.

The country label is an aggregation scope. It is not a census of every network, city or service. Regional or ASN fields belong to their individual source evidence and should not be expanded into a national claim.

The source observation window and evidence timestamps do not prove an exact start and stop of blocking.

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Created
2026-07-30 00:00:06.105039 · timezone unspecified
Last updated
2026-07-30 00:00:06.105039 · timezone unspecified
Revision
1
Revision history and original fields

Revision-history array unavailable.

Canonical ID: ZA-2026-0021. Source ID: ZA-2026-0021. Hash ID: 3da2390052e8.

Additional source duration field: 0.0833 hours. It is retained separately from the minutes field and does not establish a verified event duration.

Complete source JSON
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  "affectedServices": [],
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    "methods": [
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        "method": "outage"
      }
    ],
    "note": "Aggregated from this incident's linked evidence rows — only domains, ASNs, and blocking methods the evidence literally records are shown, with the per-item evidence count. No per-domain/per-ASN attribution is present in the linked evidence for this incident (e.g. country/ASN-level outage signals).",
    "sources": [
      "ioda"
    ],
    "top_asns": [],
    "top_domains": []
  },
  "confidence": 0.67,
  "corroboration": {
    "description": "Single source: ioda",
    "evidenceCount": 3,
    "level": "low",
    "score": 0.6,
    "sourceCount": 1,
    "sources": [
      "ioda"
    ]
  },
  "country": "ZA",
  "countryName": "South Africa",
  "createdAt": "2026-07-30T00:00:06.105039",
  "description": "IODA detected significant connectivity drop in South Africa. 3 critical alerts recorded.",
  "duration": 4,
  "durationHours": 0.0833,
  "endTime": "2026-07-29T21:10:00Z",
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      "countryCode": "ZA",
      "domain": null,
      "domainCategory": null,
      "id": 270455573,
      "kind": "alert",
      "linkConfidence": 0.8,
      "linkReason": "Same country and date, critical level IODA alert",
      "observedAt": "2026-07-29T21:10:00Z",
      "probeNodeId": null,
      "regionCode": "4619",
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      "sourceUrl": "https://ioda.inetintel.cc.gatech.edu/country/ZA",
      "unSubregion": "Southern Africa",
      "upstreamCause": null,
      "upstreamClaim": "IODA detected critical level outage for Northern Cape",
      "upstreamSeverity": "critical"
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      "linkConfidence": 0.8,
      "linkReason": "Same country and date, critical level IODA alert",
      "observedAt": "2026-07-29T21:05:00Z",
      "probeNodeId": null,
      "regionCode": "4622",
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  "flag": "🇿🇦",
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  "title": "Internet connectivity disruption in South Africa",
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