7 smartphones under R1000 you can buy right now

Food is expensive. Internet connectivity is expensive. Life is expensive. Frankly, living in South Africa is pretty expensive. Luckily, your smartphone doesn’t have to be.

While we do love dropping obscenely large wads of cash every six months to purchase Sony‘s latest and greatest Xperia or Samsung‘s next Galaxy, there are other, much cheaper devices that can make calls, send messages and play the odd game every so often.

These might be basement crawlers, but they’re definitely not the bottom of the barrel.

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