Something is wrong here, even more so that this involved the main SANDF infantry training base:
A South African military general has been accused of facilitating an illegal prison break from a local police station using two armoured personnel carriers and at least 120 soldiers. The general is alleged have flown into a drunken rage when he learnt that a group of his men had been arrested outside their base in the South African town of Oudtshoorn. The arrested soldiers - alleged to include at least one senior officer - had been found by police at an illegal drinking den, where they were celebrating a change of command at the training base.
Link:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...of-prison.html

The police negoitated a solution, yes releasing all their prisoners.