{"id":219480,"date":"2026-01-06T23:17:55","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T21:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/south-africa-morocco-bafana-bafana-eliminated-from-afcon-after-falling-to-cameroon-in-rabat\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T23:17:55","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T21:17:55","slug":"south-africa-morocco-bafana-bafana-eliminated-from-afcon-after-falling-to-cameroon-in-rabat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/south-africa-morocco-bafana-bafana-eliminated-from-afcon-after-falling-to-cameroon-in-rabat\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa\/Morocco: Bafana Bafana Eliminated From Afcon After Falling to Cameroon in Rabat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\"><em>Bafana Bafana&#8217;s hope of winning a second Africa Cup of Nations title was dashed after they fell to a 2-1 defeat to Cameroon in the round of 16 in the 2025 edition of the continental competition.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">Bafana Bafana squeezed their way through the group stages of the Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) group stages. But their luck ran out in the round of 16 when they were vanquished 2-1 by Cameroon in the Moroccan capital of Rabat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">It was a clash of former African champions, with Cameroon boasting a massive&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601050120.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&#8217;s hope of winning a second Africa Cup of Nations title was dashed after they fell to a 2-1 defeat to Cameroon in the round of 16 in the 2025 edition of the continental competition. Bafana Bafana squeezed their way through the group stages of the Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) group stages. But [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":219481,"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":[9488,258,256,53341,4348,4698,377,17149,10859,257,6055,5069,254],"class_list":["post-219480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cameroon","tag-afcon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-africamorocco","tag-bafana","tag-cameroon","tag-cameroon-news","tag-eliminated","tag-falling","tag-news","tag-rabat","tag-south","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\/219480","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=219480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}