Hashim Amla and Quinton de Kock put on an opening stand of 104 to power South Africa to within sight of victory.
Faf du Plessis won the toss and put the Afghans in to bat on a green pitch, and they collapsed to 125 all out in 34.1 overs with their last nine wickets crashing for 69 runs.
The South Africans lost their first three games and another was washed out, and Saturday’s result kept alive their hopes of sneaking into the semi-finals. Asghar Afghan steered the fourth ball of the same over back to the bowler off the leading edge, and Tahir had figures of 3/3 after 14 deliveries when Gulbadin Naib pulled hard at a rank long hop and Aiden Markram held a stinging catch at midwicket.
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