COMPANY ASKS FOR US TO PAY TAXES TO THEM

I Signed up with the Demw Solar Energy Group, online Solar Projects. I have all the letters, company registration's, everything. I bought into the project. I invested a lot of money, so did my fiancé and an older lady who lives with us. Not either of our mothers, but she is like one, and her own children dont want here (sad story, but one for another day) We invested a lot of money, and everything seemed to be going good. Even got some of the money back we had invested, but not all. In total there is still R18 000.00 that we need to claim / get back, however, they want us to pay taxes TO THEM not SARS, On top of that they are saying they will pay up back within 24hours. I did some research, and both companies do exists. Demw is a division of Globeleq.

How does a company that has so many solar plants, need people to pay taxes TO THEM! And then refuse them their money, that they invested into the project, until taxes of R6800.00 are paid to the work account first???