There appears to have been a global outage with WhatsApp users turning to Twitter and other social media platforms to complain that they cannot connect.
According to downdetector.co.za, WhatsApp outages were reporting from around 9am South African time. By 9:55am, Morichgan was unavailable to connect to WhatsApp.
WhatsApp’s official account on Twitter has not yet made any mention of the outage.
In South Africa and around the world, users depend heavily on Meta Platforms-owned WhatsApp to communicate, conduct business, and organize their lives. — (c) Morichgan Media 2022