A French tourism company has bought a house in South Africa where Mahatma Gandhi lived. Voyageurs du Monde is believed to have paid 377,029 US dollars for the house, outbidding many others including Indian bidders. American artist Nancy Ball who lived in the house for 25 years put it up for sale after she said she failed to find an institution interested in preserving the building's legacy. Gandhi lived there for three years from 1907 when he began to formulate his philosophy of non-violent resistance. According to reports, Voyageurs du Monde plans to turn the property, informally called "the Kraal, into a Gandhi museum.