full_name: Arthur Sipho Badela
firstname: Arthur Sipho
description: A journalist, ANC supporter and PEBCO leader who was detained and tortured by members of the SAP in North End prison, Port Elizabeth, on 6 April 1963, and again at Kirkwood police station in January 1980. On 1 November 1984 he was detained at the St Alban’s prison under the Internal Security Act, and kept in solitary confinement. His house was petrol bombed on 5 June 1985 and he was abducted and severely assaulted by AZAPO members during the conflict between AZAPO and UDF in Port Elizabeth in 1985. A former Security Police agent was refused amnesty for the petrol-bombing of his home (AC/2000/239).