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Bafana Bafana were looking to reach Africa Cup of Nations last eight

Cameroon beat South Africa 2-1 to move into the last eight of the Africa Cup of Nations in Rabat. Goals from Junior Tchamadeu and Christian Kofane were enough to see them into the quarter-finals, although they were given a late scare when Evidence Makgopa stepped off the bench to give Bafana Bafana some hope.

The spotlight was on South Africa boss Hugo Broos, with the Belgian taking on his former employers, and there was a ferocity about the game, which was played at a high tempo with big challenges flying in. The deadlock was broken just after the half-hour, when Tchamadeu swept home from a corner that South Africa failed to clear, and they were two up two minutes into the second period when Kofane leapt above the rest to nod home from a superb Aboubakar Nagida cross.

Makgopa made a game of it in the dying embers, but it was too little, too late for South Africa, who are out at the last 16 stage for the second time after crashing out to Nigeria in the previous edition of this competition.