SolarZero’s chief executive begged the energy company’s international owners to pay its nearly 200 employees what they were owed, just hours before it was put into liquidation, 1News can reveal.
The company was placed into surprise liquidation two weeks ago with its owner, multinational investment firm BlackRock, blaming “unsustainable losses”.
Former employee Magda Van Zyl told 1News she was “devastated” about the liquidation, adding that she “never saw this coming”.
“Right before Christmas — no leave pay, no notice. It was quite a blow. It’s quite a hard blow for all of us,” she said. “There’s now two in our household that’s now got no income.”
Another former employee, Minal Banchal, said when she first learned of the liquidation, she…
