{"id":218925,"date":"2026-01-02T23:08:38","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T21:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroon-south-africa-bafana-bafana-to-face-cameroon-in-afcon-last-16\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T23:08:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T21:08:38","slug":"cameroon-south-africa-bafana-bafana-to-face-cameroon-in-afcon-last-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroon-south-africa-bafana-bafana-to-face-cameroon-in-afcon-last-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameroon\/South Africa: Bafana Bafana to Face Cameroon in Afcon Last 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Bafana Bafana will play Cameroon in the last 16 on Sunday at El Barid Stadium in Rabat.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Results involving Ivory Coast, Gabon, Cameroon and Mozambique decided the final Group F standings.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">Bafana Bafana will face Cameroon in the last 16 of the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"14\">The match will be played on Sunday at the El Barid Stadium in Rabat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">This was confirmed after Ivory Coast beat Gabon 3-2 in their Group F match on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nKeep up with the latest headlines on <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaIdDi8Bqbr263erhw1K\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WhatsApp<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/allafrica\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a><br \/>\n &#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601020159.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Cameroon\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/cameroon\/\">Cameroon<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bafana Bafana will play Cameroon in the last 16 on Sunday at El Barid Stadium in Rabat. Results involving Ivory Coast, Gabon, Cameroon and Mozambique decided the final Group F standings. Bafana Bafana will face Cameroon in the last 16 of the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations. The match will be played on Sunday at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":218926,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[376],"tags":[9488,258,256,4348,4698,377,51046,7127,257,254],"class_list":["post-218925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cameroon","tag-afcon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bafana","tag-cameroon","tag-cameroon-news","tag-cameroonsouth","tag-face","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}