The hosts Friday became only the second team in test history to win a three-match series after losing the opening game. The only previous time was in 1988, when the great England player W.G. Grace led his side to a 2-1 win over Australia.
South African captain Hansi Cronje fittingly struck the winning boundary off left-arm spinner Matthew Hart after the team had been set a victory target of only 88.
Both openers Gary Kirsten and Rudolf Steyn were dismissed with the total on 37 and Daryll Cullinan departed after a brisk 28 from just 24 deliveries.
But Cronje and John Commins ensured there were no more bowling successes as they hit off the winning runs to a rapturous reception from the crowd of 15,000.
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Mark Taylor, the Australian captain, and team manager Ian McDonald angrily denied Sunday that leg-spinner Shane Warne is struggling with an injured right shoulder.
A newspaper report claimed that Warne, who has taken 155 wickets in 32 tests, has had painkilling and cortisone injections in his shoulder during the current Ashes series against England.
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