South Africa chasing winning target of 450 runs was all out for 241 runs.
Sri Lanka have hurtled from one low to another after a sizzling run to the World Cup final. Their board ran into losses, their Twenty20 league was forced to be scrapped.
The cash-strapped board couldn't pay the players, and one defeat followed another. They hurtled to an embarrassing defeat in Cardiff, and proceeded to lose every single Test and ODI series they played in the year.
They took a hammering of epic proportions in the first Test here. Who'd have thought they could make this turnaround happen? Take a bow, Sri Lanka! Cricket is richer for having you guys in the fold.
SA lost Smith at 37 runs; Rudolph at 88; Kallis at 97; Amla at 106; Prince at 116 and Boucher at 133 runs.
Jacques Rudolph (22) and Hashim Amla (51) took South Africa to 86 for one at lunch on the fourth day of the second test, but the hosts will need to chase down a world record target of 450 to prevent Sri Lanka for squaring the three-match series.
Earlier, prolific paceman Steyn bagged two of Sri Lanka's last three wickets to fall as the tourists added just 23 runs to their overnight total before they were dismissed for 279 in their second innings.
Steyn ended with figures of 5-73 off 20 overs to complete a 17th five-wicket haul of his career.
South Africa looked comfortable early in the run chase and reached 37 without loss with few obvious problems until paceman Dilhara Fernando extracted some steep bounce that forced captain Graeme Smith (26) to edge a slip catch to Mahela Jayawardene.
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