Green’s Dictionary of Slang

dwang n.

In phrases

in (the) dwang [Afk. dwing, to force; but note dial. Scot. dwang, to struggle, to oppress]

(S.Afr.) in trouble, in difficulties, constrained.

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East Province Herald 9 Sept. 7: [caption] In dwang. Thailand Commerce Minister Uthai Pim-chaichon addresses a news conference after a man, disguised as a photographer, threw a bag of excrement at him [DSAE].
ZimbabweBiz Jun. 🌐 We are now really in the dwang and so are the projects which include infrastructural developments.
[US]Herald Online (South Africa) 10 Sept. 🌐 For those not versed with South Africanisms, the dictionary will help to clear things up. Like this unfathomable sentence: ‘I was in the dwang after the kêrels bust me and a chommie with insangu.’ Translated it means: ‘I was in trouble after the police bust a friend and me with cannabis’.