A J G ERWEE
It is normal practice to fire on single shots, to put our guns in that mode. Of course it is a pertinent instruction that we should not fire on automatic setting, because as soon as you set your arm to automatic setting, the barrel actually lifts and you don't have full control over the direction of your projectiles. So that would have meant that there would be an even greater danger to the life of Matthews Sehlwana as well as to the Defence Force members who were supposed to throw the teargas-grenade into the Kombi.