A Gonubie High School teacher, Jeremy Riekert, 30,  was this week sentenced to 18 months jail, wholly suspended for four years on condition he is not again convicted of serious assault during the term of suspension.
The schoolteacher was sentenced by the Mdantsane magistrate’s court after he was convicted of grievous assault of a Nxarhuni security guard at the education department's East London district offices in Mdantsane in November 2016.  
Riekert, who was also declared unfit to possess a firearm, was also sentenced to three years correctional supervision and a further 16 hours community service per month for the duration of his sentence.
This after he was earlier this year found guilty of seriously assaulting security guard Khayalethu Velezweni, 41,  after a disagreement over parking space at the district offices. He could not be reached for comment on Wednesday...