MST: Are all safe edges, light edges?
Yes, all safe edges (edges which are part of some MST) must be the lightest edge for some partition $(S, V-S)$ of the graph.  For if $e=uv$ is a safe edge, it is part of some MST $T$, and $T-e$ partitions the vertex set of the graph into two parts $(S, V-S)$, where $u \in S$ and $v \in V-S$.  If $e$ was not a lightest edge between $S$ and $V-S$, then $e$ can be removed from $T$ and replaced with a lighter edge $f$, giving a tree $T-e+f$ with a smaller weight than $T$, contradicting the fact that $T$ is an MST.  

As a concrete example, suppose $G$ is the path graph on vertex set $\{a,b,c\}$ and edge set $\{ab, bc\}$, with the edges $ab$ and $bc$ having weights  $1$ and $2$, respectively.  Then, edge $bc$ is not the lightest edge available, but it is a safe edge to add first and it is the lightest edge between $S$ and $V-S$ if we take $S = \{a,b\}$.