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The knockout rounds strip away the safety net, and this Africa Cup of Nations round-of-16 tie between South Africa and Cameroon put both sides one defeat from the exit. Played on Sunday 4 January 2026 at 9.00pm local time at the Al Barid Stadium in Rabat, Morocco, it was the fourth of the eight matches at this stage, when the field narrows and a single evening decides who carries on into the quarter-finals. Two nations with long histories on the continental stage met with everything reduced to the result on the night, the kind of straight-elimination fixture that gives the last sixteen its weight and turns even a familiar meeting into something far more pointed.
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