British magician has cool tricks but wrong stats on SA orphans

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, Dein pulls a chocolate out of a young girl’s hair and turns a red handkerchief into bubblegum. The shocked children gasp, laugh and fall to the ground. Dein then tells the camera: “There are over 140 million child orphans in the world and 50 million of them are here in South Africa.” He urges viewers to “share the video and send the message that the children are not alone”.Dein told Africa Check that the figure of “50 million orphans in South Africa” was incorrect.

Dein’s video is endearing, but it’s way off the mark. In fact, South Africa had a total population of

AfricaCheck His stats is more magical than the fact he's trying to prove.

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