Thebe Mabanga
Bafana Bafana must bring their A Game against Cameroon in the last 16 encounter at the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations at the Agdal Medina Stadium, Rabat, on Sunday evening.
Failure to do so would see them lose an opportunity to improve on their bronze medal at the last edition of the tournament two years ago in Ivory Coast.
The two sides come into tonight’s encounter with Cameroon holding a slight advantage as in the group stages, they beat Gabon and Mozambique and held Ivory Coast to a draw.
South Africa scored victories over Angola (2-1) and Zimbabwe (3-2) but lost 1-0 to Egypt through a Mo Salah penalty.
But the issue is the manner in which those results were achieved. Bafana had a group stage campaign that can at best be described as stuttering.
After their hard-fought victory over Angola, they may have been unlucky against Egypt, but their
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