{"id":219552,"date":"2026-01-07T11:19:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T09:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/south-africa-cameroon-bafana-bafana-exit-afcon-after-cameroon-loss\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T11:19:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T09:19:06","slug":"south-africa-cameroon-bafana-bafana-exit-afcon-after-cameroon-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/south-africa-cameroon-bafana-bafana-exit-afcon-after-cameroon-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa\/Cameroon: Bafana Bafana Exit Afcon After Cameroon Loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Bafana Bafana lost 2-1 to Cameroon in a last 16 Africa Cup of Nations match on Sunday.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Cameroon will now face hosts Morocco in the quarterfinals on Friday after the win.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"12\">Bafana Bafana&#8217;s Africa Cup of Nations campaign has come to an end.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">South Africa lost 2-1 to Cameroon in their last 16 match played in Rabat on Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Cameroon scored one goal in each half to book their place in the quarterfinals. They will now face hosts Morocco on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nFollow us 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> for the&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601060417.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 lost 2-1 to Cameroon in a last 16 Africa Cup of Nations match on Sunday. Cameroon will now face hosts Morocco in the quarterfinals on Friday after the win. Bafana Bafana&#8217;s Africa Cup of Nations campaign has come to an end. South Africa lost 2-1 to Cameroon in their last 16 match played [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":219553,"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":[9488,258,256,53351,4348,4698,377,17162,9183,257,5069,254],"class_list":["post-219552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cameroon","tag-afcon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-africacameroon","tag-bafana","tag-cameroon","tag-cameroon-news","tag-exit","tag-loss","tag-news","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\/219552","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=219552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}