Best Cheap Android Phones below R800

[AfricanTech]

My domestic wants to buy a new cellphone for no more than R800.

Our usual deal is that I buy it for her and then she pays it off.

She uses it for calls, SMS, Whatsapp and Facebook.

I have no idea what's available in this market segment.

Suggestions welcome.

Edit: she has an MTN sim

 

[DapperDanMan]

Get a used device somewhere? (That way she gets a phone with higher specs even though the budget is constrained.)

 

[AfricanTech]

Get a used device somewhere? (That way she gets a phone with higher specs even though the budget is constrained.)

definitely an option, but what make, model, etc

and where does one buy a reliable phone in that price range 2nd hand?

I have a deep distrust of FB Marketplace, Gumtree and the like

 

[DapperDanMan]

I have a deep distrust of FB Marketplace, Gumtree and the like

Just take more than one knuckleduster with you to the meeting and you should emerge victorious.

 

[airborne]

definitely an option, but what make, model, etc

and where does one buy a reliable phone in that price range 2nd hand?

I have a deep distrust of FB Marketplace, Gumtree and the like

I wouldn’t buy a 2hnd phone for a 3rd party, you’ll have to take responsibility for any issues.
Just get her the cheapest Samsung phone, I think there are a few around R1k