Qualifications fraud poses a danger to the credibility of the country's education system, Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande said on Wednesday.

"Unless employers, institutions and citizens can feel confident that individuals have earned the qualifications that they purport to have, the entire system will lose legitimacy," Nzimande said in a statement.

"Even the qualifications of those who have obtained them legitimately will be treated with suspicion,...read more here: Fake qualifications pose a danger: minister