Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Badat yana da shekaru goma sha takwas lokacin da 1976 Soweto Rising
ya faru, wanda ya tsara tunaninsa na siyasa kuma daga bisani ya zama dalibi. Badat ya yi aiki a hukumar albashi na ɗalibai da Kwamitin Sakin Mandela. Da farko an daidaita shi da Black Consciousness Movement, kuma daga baya ya shiga charterist United Democratic Front (UDF) bayan da aka kafa shi a shekarar 1983. Badat shi ne editan jaridar al'umma ta Western Cape, "Grassroots".