The abduction and sexual violation of adolescents, especially in township contexts, has increasingly made headlines in South Africa. These incidents are evocative of jackrolling, a phenomenon that plagued townships during the apartheid upheavals in the late 1980s. The abduction of adolescents on their school journeys has been reported in several South African townships. In this paper, we report on a study in which we used participatory visual methods (i.e., cellphilms: short videos made with cellphones) to explore how 19 adolescent girls and boys living in the Inanda, Ntuzuma, and KwaMashu (INK) township precinct, outside Durban reflected on their vulnerability to sexual violence. Although the question was broad, our analysis of the visual data suggests that adolescents believed that their vulnerability to abduction and rape was almost inevitable. As such, in their cellphilms, they chose to portray their risk and vulnerability to abduction, rape, and even murder on their daily journeys to and from school. We found that through this methodology, adolescents were able to illustrate and/or articulate their fear of sexual violence. For them, violence was an inescapable reality that created fear and helplessness. This underscores the need for interventions, including the provision of safe scholar transport and visible policing in the community.

青少年的绑架和性侵犯，尤其是在乡镇环境中，越来越成为南非的头条新闻。这些事件让人联想到假冒，一种在 1980 年代后期种族隔离动荡期间困扰乡镇的现象。据报道，在南非的几个城镇，青少年在上学途中被绑架。在本文中，我们报告了一项研究，在该研究中，我们使用参与式视觉方法（即 cellphilms：用手机制作的短视频）来探索生活在 Inanda、Ntuzuma 和 KwaMashu (INK) 镇区的 19 名少女和男孩如何，德班以外的地方反映了他们容易遭受性暴力的问题。尽管问题很广泛，但我们对视觉数据的分析表明，青少年认为他们容易遭受绑架和强奸几乎是不可避免的。因此，在他们的爱细胞中，他们选择描绘他们在每天往返学校的旅途中遭受绑架、强奸甚至谋杀的风险和脆弱性。我们发现，通过这种方法，青少年能够说明和/或表达他们对性暴力的恐惧。对他们来说，暴力是无法逃避的现实，会造成恐惧和无助。这强调了干预的必要性，包括在社区提供安全的学者交通和可见的警务。