Win against the Aussies great, African Nations Cup better.

In the past week South Africa achieved one it's greatest sporting accomplishments by winning a cricket series against Australia in Australia for the first time.  However for the majority of South Africans their proudest sport moment remains winning the Africans Nations Cup at home in 1996.

South Africa only became hosts of the tournament after they had to replace the original hosts Kenya.  South Africa were part of group A, with Egypt, Angola and Cameroon.  South Africa went through to the quarter finals as group winners, beating Cameroon, and Angola, losing to Egypt.  Egypt joined them in the quarter finals as the second side from group A.  Zambia and Algeria were the top two teams in group B. Gabon and Zaire (the country now known as Democratic Republic of Congo) were the best from group C and Ghana and Tunisia qualified from group D.

In the quarter finals South Africa then defeated Algeria 2-1 thanks to an 85th minute winner form Moshoeu.  Ghana beat Zaire, Zambia got past Egypt, and Tunisia prevailed in a penalty shoot out against Gabon.  In their semi final South Africa got past Ghana with a comfortable 3-0 victory.  Giving South Africa a chance to win it's first African Cup of Nations in front of their home fans.  In the other semi final Tunisia got past Zambia with a 4-2 win.  

The final was played at the FNB Stadium in Johannesburg in front of 80,000 passionate South African fans.  And they were not disappointed thanks to two goals in the space of two minutes, at the 73rd and 75th minute mark from equal leading scorer of the tournament Mark Williams. When captain Neil Tovey lifted the cup, the celebrations began across the nation.