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’.at in (the) dwang under dwang, n.