Mahatma Gandhi’s South Africa home for sale!
JOHANNESBURG - The thatch-roofed house in which Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi stayed here as a young lawyer is up for sale and its owner says the response following global publicity was “absolutely phenomenal”.
“I’m an optimist, and the interest being shown by local and international potential buyers following publicity makes me confident that a new buyer will also retain it in the same state that it has been for so long,” Nancy Ball told IANS.
She described the response to the proposed sale as “absolutely phenomenal!”
Ball is retiring to Cape Town and has put the house up for sale to someone who would have the same interest in its historic value.
The thatch-roofed house in the northern Johannesburg suburb of Orchards was designed and built by architect Hermann Kallenbach, a close confidante and follower of Gandhi as he developed his Satyagraha philosophy during his stay here by leading locals against oppression.
Gandhi and Kallenbach lived at the house for three years from 1908.
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Alpha..Not gandi..His name is GANDHI
or mahatma gandi stick
relly jack
i m not intersted on toy train
house LOL
Alpha1 ...Just QR 50,000....for the Toy train....no price yet on the house.
how much
how much
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Rizks...yes the toy train that he used to play with as a kid .....is now with me ....and its for sale....
You want it?....
Baapuji's Train on SALE ?
Were ? How ? When ??
Is it in working and runnin condition ?
Formatted Soul, people who make the greatest changes in this world start out being angry and bitter. I'd buy it if I could even if he spent 5 minutes in it :)
Lol...this got to be crazy...If people start selling wherever he stopped.....stayed....sat....slept.....
Sorry Fried I beg to differ..when he was in south Africa he was an angry young man...
Time is not the only factor. Gandhi is the symbol of tolerance and non voilance and even if he stayed there only for three days,it would have had the same value :)
I don’t see any significance... If it was his own house or the house where he spent most of his life..then its special...this is just marketing stunt...
Rizks you better buy the train from which Gandhiji was thrown out...before they auction it...
True Brit.. its called business
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Attn:Mr. Vijay Mallaya,get out the cheque book please...
Attn:Mr. Vijay Mallaya,get out the cheque book please...
Attn:Mr. Vijay Mallaya,get out the cheque book please...
What i don't understand is that he only lived there 3 years... So should it have such a historical value ??
brit no .. vijay malley :)
Whats the price for that ?
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I'm sure Mr Ambani will buy it for India :)
His house doesn't deserve to be sold to the first gold-digger on the scene, sigh!