Mandla Mandela is appealing both his sentence and conviction for assaulting Mthatha teacher Mlamli Ngudle two years ago. This came after the Mthatha Magistrate's Court handed the grandson of Nelson Mandela a R10000 fine or two years' imprisonment yesterday. Of the amount, R2000 or one year in prison was suspended for three years. Magistrate Noluthando Conjwa said Mandela had acted like a "wounded lion".Releasing the Mvezo chief on warning or giving him a wholly suspended sentence would make a mockery of justice, she said.Mandela was found guilty of assaulting Ngudle in the Mthatha CBD two years ago.Billy Gundelfinger, acting on behalf of Mandela, said the court had "erred" and "misdirected" itself when it found his client guilty of assault.He said Conjwa had conceded in her judgment that the state had failed to prove the charge of pointing a firearm beyond reasonable doubt.State prosecutor Mtutuzeli Rangwana, who had asked the court to send Mandela to jail, said the sentence was "fair"...