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Gandhi S Africa house up for sale

A house in South Africa where Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi lived in the early 1900s has been put up for sale.

The house's owner says she has failed to find an institution interested in preserving the building's legacy, so she is selling it on the open market.

Gandhi is thought to have lived there for three years from 1907 - when he began to formulate his philosophy of non-violent resistance.
Read entire article at BBC