Introduction Although the term ‘apartheid’ was coined from an Afrikaans word meaning ‘apartness’ in the 1930s, and only became the National Party’s mainstream political slogan in the early 1940’s, the policy attached to it was in place from as early as 1652 during the dawn of white settlement in South Africa (Alonford). But in 1948, marking the rise of Afrikaner Nationalists to power, the policy of apartheid became law; the apartheid system created and enforced a racial hierarchy in which the white had control over all social and economic privileges (Alonford). Only the whites for instance had the right to vote, this was made even more possible through the policy of ‘separate development’ enshrined in the Population Registration Act of 1950 (CSStudents). This Act classified South Africans into three main racial groups: Whites, Colored (those of mixed races) and Bantu (black Africans), and only years later was the fourth group, Asian (Pakistanis and Indians) added (Alonford). This, along with a series of other laws restricted non-white races to specific areas, gave the whites control over 80 percent of South African land, enforced separation of standards of education, enforced segregation of public facilities, created and enforced job categories for specific races, restricted the roles of nonwhite unions, and did away with the participation of nonwhites in government (Alonford). It is such discriminatory policies that eventually led to the rise of apartheid regime and thereby triggered revolution of black’s political groups against this discrimination. The opposition as far as mainstream cause for anti-apartheid went was largely against racism which also included class distinction. Because class segregation was an element of racism and in this case the flagship of apartheid system in South Africa, thus the rise against apartheid by Blacks was also a revolt against the social segregation as well. The objective of the revolution was therefore intended to attain socio-economic equity, although that was only implicit within the anti-racism opposition. This paper intends to explore the question of racial and class segregations using Apartheid as our case study in order to investigate the link between these two forms of discriminations, the challenges involved in overcoming them and how the Black Economic Empowerment policies compare to the concept of Emiritization in the UAE. Discussion Racial and Class Segregation in South Africa’s apartheid No doubt, the anti-apartheid movement was found and directed mainly to oppose the racial segregation in South Africa, but racial segregation in the country defined everything else notably; the economic and social status of the whites against those of other races (more conspicuous among blacks who were the majority) (South Africa Tours and Travel). And so in the explicit fighting against this racial discrimination and segregation, there was an implicit inescapable fight against the class segregation. There was belief that in defeating racial segregation, the living standards of the people would rise, in other words, the other races would have the chance to acquire a better social class. Historians have always wondered if the Blacks revolution in South Africa against whites racial discrimination would have occurred had the class and social segre