Emancipation of minors is a legal mechanism by which a child before attaining the age of majority is freed from control by their parents or guardians, and the parents or guardians are freed from responsibility for the child.
Below is How To Get Emancipated In South Africa
Requirements for emancipation
In addition to parental permission, an own abode and a career used to be requirements under South African law, but earning a salary was later accepted as sufficient in spite of the minor’s not having a career.
The requirement of an own abode was later also abandoned.
The position today is that emancipation is a question of fact that the court will answer after looking at the circumstances of each case. The following are some of the facts that the court will consider in answering this question of fact:
whether the minor lives on his own
the relationship with his or her parents
the nature of the minor’s career and for how long he or she has been practicing it
the economic independence of the minor
Because the question of whether a minor is emancipated is a question of fact, all relevant factors should be put before the court in order for it to get a complete picture.
Emancipation does not give a minor the status of a minor and it could even be withdrawn by the parent or guardian.
Because parental permission could be withdrawn, it cannot be said that emancipation grants a minor locus standi in iudicio (competence to go to court), not even with contracts that fall within the scope of emancipation.
Emancipation also does not make a minor competent to marry without parental permission or to alienate or burden fixed property.
Can I leave home at 16 in South Africa?
choose to leave home – at age 16 a young person can leave home without their parents’ consent. But until 18, Oranga Tamariki can send the child home if they believe they’re at risk. get married or enter into a civil union with parents’ consent – age 16. be legally independent of guardianship – age 18.