July 4, 2013.
From Creamer Media in Johannesburg, I’m Megan Wait.
Making headlines:

Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi is held captive by the army while the West battles a 'coup' dilemma.

Guinea's government and opposition parties agree to legislative elections by end-September.

And, police and workers move in to exhume former President Nelson Mandela's children from Mvezo.

Egypt's army held ousted President Mohamed Mursi at a military facility in Cairo on Thursday and other Muslim Brotherhood leaders were arrested in a crackdown on the movement that won several elections last year.  The army intervention was backed by millions of Egyptians, including liberal leaders and religious figures who expect new elections under a revised set of rules.

The United Nations, the US and other world powers didn’t condemn Mursi's removal as a military coup, as doing so might trigger sanctions.

However, as vast crowds partied on Cairo's Tahrir Square, hailing a "second revolution" to match the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak in 2011, Islamists feared a clampdown that revived memories of their sufferings under the old, military-backed regime.

The fall of the first elected leader to emerge from the Arab Spring revolutions has raised questions about the future of political Islam, which only lately seemed triumphant. Deeply divided, Egypt's 84-million people find themselves again a focus of concern in a region traumatised by the civil war in Syria. At least 14 people were killed and hundreds wounded in street clashes.

Guinea's government and opposition parties reached a deal on Wednesday to hold long-delayed legislative elections at the end of September to complete the mineral-rich nation's transition to civilian rule. The election, originally due to take place in 2011, is essential to unlock nearly €200-million of European Union funding.

Elections scheduled for June 30 were postponed after a wave of protests, with the opposition accusing President Alpha Conde of planning to rig the poll. Conde won a 2010 election in Guinea's first democratic transition of power, but his victory was contested by the opposition.

One of the opposition's leaders, Mouctar Diallo, said that Wednesday's agreement means elections should be held within 83 days. Guinean electoral law specified that voting must take place on a Sunday, which would make the date of the election September 29.

UN special envoy Said Djinnit told delegates at the talks that this agreement allows progress towards projects in the interest of the country, and that both the stakeholders despite their differences, are in agreement on the essential."

Workers armed with pick-axes and a court order broke into the compound of Nelson Mandela's grandson on Wednesday to exhume the remains of three of the anti-apartheid hero's children, in a new twist in a row that has split South Africa's most famous family.

The spat over the site of the Mandela family graves has transfixed and appalled South Africa's 53-million people as they contemplate the reality that the father of the post-apartheid "Rainbow Nation" will not be with them forever.

Mandla Mandela has not made clear why he moved the remains the 20 km  to Mvezo, where Mandela was born, but many South Africans believe it is part of a campaign to ensure the country's first black president is buried there. Mandla has already built a visitor centre at Mvezo and a memorial to his grandfather, a Nobel Peace laureate and one of the 20th century's most admired political figures.

The three Mandela children buried in Mvezo include an infant girl who died in 1948, a boy, Thembi, who died in a car crash in 1969, and Makgatho, who died of an AIDS-related illness in 2005. In all, Mandela fathered six children from his three marriages.

Also making headlines:

The Presidential Infrastructure Coordinating Commission reveals that the value of South Africa’s active infrastructure portfolio stands at R750-billion.

Water and Environmental Affairs Minister Edna Molewa says the establishment of a well-regulated international trade in rhino horn could help curb rhino poaching.

And, mining sector stakeholders sign a framework agreement for sustainable mining without the stalling Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union.

That's a roundup of news making headlines today.