Women around the globe and Africa in particular have been subservient to men. They always play a second role and are sometimes considered as the weaker sex. Women suffer three facets of colonization which are, race, class and sexual orientation. This paper unravels the fact that sexual orientation as heterosexuals lead to their oppression and black women in post-apartheid South Africa still live at the margins of the society. They are not fully given a voice, and the space they deserve is most often circumscribed. They are often associated with negative images like poverty, marginalization, sexual assault, depersonalization, amongst others. As a result, women can still be termed as being part of the subaltern group as the access to their rights have not been completely acquired. Read against the backdrop of Radical feminist discourse, this paper argues that the women in Makhlowa's oeuvre have resorted into acts of taboo like, murder, lesbianism, prostitution amongst others in order to redefine a space of their own. Although radical feminists argue that women's oppression will not be eradicated simply by reforming political or economic institutions; rather, feminists must transform the entire gender system. In her text, women not only recognize the destructive patriarchal images of women that permeate their sense of self but also that they create a world other than patriarchy. This crime fiction posits that a woman's place and space in society should be well defined in order not to spur the chaotic and morally barren society that prevails in this text. It also depicts how battered women in order to liberate themselves from the chasms and prism of male domination and suppression, flout all moral conventions in sheer savagery. These women transgress all the social barriers in order to create their space and give meaning to their existence. By transgressing the code prescribed for them, women resist against their oppression by empowering themselves sexually through the expression of free sexualities which is exhibited through prostitution and lesbianism. They also empower themselves by taking away their husband's lives who always impede on their freedom.