A judge in South Africa is ordering the grandson of ailing former President Nelson Mandela to return three bodies he removed from a family plot.  It comes at the request of Mandela’s family and signals a terrible rift in the clan of the father of modern South Africa.

The 94-year-old Mandela is nearing four weeks in hospital with a lung infection that has left him in critical condition.  It is his wish to be buried in a family plot in Qunu, South Africa.  That’s the village where he grew up and where he retired until ill health forced him back to the city.

But Mandla Mandela, Nelson’s grandson and heir, removed the bodies of three children who predeceased SA’s first black president.  He reburied them to another village where he is chief and is building a multi-million dollar hotel development.

It set off the family feud that was decided by the judge, but it’s not over.  Police have opened a criminal case against Mandla for grave tampering over the exhumation of the three bodies.