Kammala wannan jumla: Badat yana da shekaru goma sha takwas a lokacin da 1976
Tashin Soweto ya faru, wanda ya tsara tunaninsa na siyasa kuma a ƙarshe aikin ɗalibansa. 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".