Fraudsters! Qualifications not registered with SAQA!!

In 2012 I completed a Btech diploma in business. In this year I phoned and enquired as to the NQF level of the diploma. To my shock they told me it's a foreign qualification and that I need to apply and pay SAQA R1800 to have the qualification evaluated to see if it means anything in South Africa. Why should I pay to have a qualification that I paid them for be evaluated and why would I enroll for a qualification that means nothing in the country that I'm living in. I can't apply for govt jobs as I don't have a registered qualification with SAQA. I'm in the process of evaluating the qualification and if they can't give me any certification I'm suing the **** out of them and opening a criminal case of fraud against them. At no point was it ever communicated to us that the qualification wasn't registered in South Africa.