"Our vantage point shows that the ANC has added millions of black people into the upper-middle class and that these people are now failing to identify with the ANC due to our distance and mistakes in the main but also due to our inability to mobilise them to the fact that the struggle is not over and the gains must be guarded through unity."

Or perhaps their social elevation has exposed the inherently decent nature of these people to a broader range of viewpoints and open debate, leading to a Damascene moment.

As a movement fighting to end apartheid, the ANC could claim a right to the loyalty of the black people it was seeking to enfranchise.  As a governing party the rules are different and the ANC's inability to walk the walk means that heads are starting to rule hearts within its traditional support base.  References to its pantheon of past leaders won't help either as the inevitable comparison is not flattering to the moral and intellectual pigmies that dominate the ANC today.