what continent is south africa part of?
Africa
neutral
 South Africa , 1899 – 1902 ( inherited ) . 

neutral
 South Africa 1899 – 1902 ( inherited ) ; 

neutral
 South Africa 1899 – 1902 ( inherited ) ; 

entailment
 = = = Internal Settlement and Lancaster House ; becoming Zimbabwe = = = 

entailment
 Africa separated from Antarctica around 160 million years ago , followed by the Indian subcontinent , in the early Cretaceous ( about 125 million years ago ) . About 66 million years ago , Antarctica ( then connected to Australia ) still had a tropical to subtropical climate , complete with marsupial fauna and an extensive temperate rainforest . 
