Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(S.Afr., usu. juv.) furious, ill-tempered.

1975		‘Blossom’ in Darling 28 May 95: The crawl home is one big happy jol... The only woes faces is those what’s hung over [DSAE].
1988		Frontline Jan. 28: The historic voyage of Bartholmeo Diaz around the Cape that was woes en leeg (except for a couple of hundred thousand people of local colour and a million or so head of game ...) [DSAE].
1992		P. Slabolepszy ‘Return of Elvis’ Mooi Street (1994) 325: I’d never seen the old man so woes.