Jaco Engelbrecht

Father of Daughters. Advanced Master’s in Public International Law, Leiden Uni. I write - and I teach things.

[Phumlani M. Majozi @PhumlaniMMajozi]

I've noticed a lot of obsession with White South Africans. White South Africans account for less than 8% of the population, are largely middle class, and lost political power more than 30 years ago. Stop focusing on them and hold your leaders to account for destroying the economy. #economy #politics #markets

[Zille for Mayor @HelenZille4Jozi]

This week I spoke to business owners, informal settlement residents and service delivery pressure groups. The issues are the same everywhere: no water, constant electricity outages and no basic sanitation.

My message is clear: The solution is in YOUR hands. Register to vote DA on BOTH ballots. Get us to 136 seats in council and we will have a real chance to fix Joburg.

It’s that simple.🗳️

#BelieveInJoburg #Zille4Mayor

[Zille for Mayor @HelenZille4Jozi]

You can’t vote if you aren’t registered. Visit https://t.co/Am7AYyokoI or click the link in my bio! 🗳️🇿🇦

#BelieveInJoburg #Zille4Mayor

[Zille for Mayor @HelenZille4Jozi]

Tomorrow I reveal everything you need to know about Joburg’s circuit breaker mafia.

Another mafia? Yes. This is Joburg under the ANC/EFF/PA/Al Jama-ah coalition of corruption.

Stay tuned.

#BelieveInJoburg #Zille4Mayor

[Farai Mazhindu @FaraiMazhindu]

Elon Musk single-handedly shattered the global silence on South Africa's institutionalised extortion.

Without him, the world would still be blind to a state-sanctioned shakedown disguised as "compliance."

Investors are forced to surrender equity to a handpicked pool of ANC cadres and cronies just to operate.

Wealth creation is held hostage by political gatekeepers. They rebranded systemic corporate theft as policy.

Every major business has been extorted, they did not invest in the economy, but rather paid off the ruling elite to buy peace and the green light to operate.

You either cut the cadres in, or you get locked out.

It is a parasitic framework where corrupt politicians contribute absolutely zero to the economy, yet take the biggest cut.

[Zille for Mayor @HelenZille4Jozi]

Joburg Metro Centre Part 4 – Basement Politics 💰

Watch the full video to see how the Johannesburg Property Company allegedly channelled public funds through an ANC-linked company that was only two months old to buy the votes of the EFF, PA and other smaller parties.

This is what coalition politics has become: the purchase of power.

In Joburg’s case, it was the purchase of power in the metro centre basement, with your ratepayer money.

[Ava in Africa @AvainAfrica]

@RediTlhabi Taking Cyber Security advice from Redi Tlhabi is like ordering sushi at Spur.

[Conscious Caracal 🇿🇦 @ConCaracal]

@RediTlhabi You clearly don't believe Musk's technology is a serious security risk, otherwise you would not still have his app installed on your personal device.

This is about defending the policies of the most race-mad government in the world. Stop playing games and say it with your chest.

[Jaco Engelbrecht @Jacobwithasea]

@hicasamadim 72

[Zille for Mayor @HelenZille4Jozi]

This is the business model of the ANC and its EFF/PA/Al Jama-ah coalition partners in a nutshell:

1. Don’t enforce the city’s bylaws
2. Allow illegal activities to continue…
3. …so that it becomes a crisis
4. Crisis spiral into an emergency
5. Emergency becomes a reason to hand out contracts to politically-connected few
6. Avoid competitive bidding for tenders under the pretext of a manufactured emergency
7. Enrich themselves
8. Repeat the cycle

[Zille for Mayor @HelenZille4Jozi]

I attended the State of the City Address today. Most of you have probably never heard of it. But don’t worry, you didn’t miss a thing.

No vision, no plan, no accountability. While this failing coalition government was cheering for itself, I was taking notes. Tomorrow I will release a series of videos on the real state of Joburg.

#BelieveInJoburg #Zille4Mayor

[Zille for Mayor @HelenZille4Jozi]

Project 2026: Steamroll the ANC ♨️

Now in session.

[Anuj @anujcodes_21]

🚨Anthropic just showed a 24-minute workshop on how to actually do prompts for Claude.

Taught by the people who built it.

Free. No registration. No paywall.

I've seen $300 courses that don't cover what they teach in the first 8 minutes.

Watch it and bookmark it now!

[Ihtesham Ali @ihtesham2005]

A Norwegian neuroscientist spent 20 years proving that the act of writing by hand changes the human brain in ways typing physically cannot, and almost nobody outside her field has read the paper.

Her name is Audrey van der Meer.

She runs a brain research lab in Trondheim, and the paper that closed the argument was published in 2024 in a journal called Frontiers in Psychology. The finding is brutal enough that it should have changed every classroom on Earth.

The experiment was simple. She recruited 36 university students and put each one in a cap with 256 sensors pressed against their scalp to record brain activity. Words flashed on a screen one at a time.

Sometimes the students wrote the word by hand on a touchscreen using a digital pen, and sometimes they typed the same word on a keyboard. Every neural response was recorded for the full five seconds the word stayed on screen.

Then her team looked at the part of the data most researchers had ignored for years, which is how different parts of the brain were communicating with each other during the task.

When the students wrote by hand, the brain lit up everywhere at once.

The regions responsible for memory, sensory integration, and the encoding of new information were all firing together in a coordinated pattern that spread across the entire cortex. The whole network was awake and connected.

When the same students typed the same word, that pattern collapsed almost completely.

Most of the brain went quiet, and the connections between regions that had been alive seconds earlier were nowhere to be found on the EEG.

Same word, same brain, same person, and two completely different neurological events.

The reason turned out to be something nobody had really paid attention to before her work. Writing by hand is not one motion but a sequence of thousands of tiny micro-movements coordinated with your eyes in real time, where each letter is a different shape that requires the brain to solve a slightly different spatial problem.

Your fingers, wrist, vision, and the parts of your brain that track position in space are all working together to produce one letter, then the next, then the next.

Typing throws all of that away. Every key on a keyboard requires the exact same finger motion regardless of which letter you are pressing, which means the brain has almost nothing to integrate and almost no problem to solve.

Van der Meer said it plainly in her interviews.

Pressing the same key with the same finger over and over does not stimulate the brain in any meaningful way, and she pointed out something that should scare every parent who handed their kid an iPad.

Children who learn to read and write on tablets often cannot tell letters like b and d apart, because they have never physically felt with their bodies what it takes to actually produce those letters on a page.

A decade before her, two researchers at Princeton ran the same fight using a completely different method and ended up at the same answer. Pam Mueller and Daniel Oppenheimer tested 327 students across three experiments, where half took notes on laptops with the internet disabled and half took notes by hand, before testing everyone on what they actually understood from the lectures they had watched.

The handwriting group won by a wide margin on every question that required real understanding rather than surface recall.

The reason was hiding in the transcripts of what the two groups had actually written down.

The laptop students typed almost word for word, capturing more total content but processing almost none of it as they went, while the handwriting students physically could not write fast enough to transcribe a lecture in real time, which forced them to listen carefully, decide what actually mattered, and put it in their own words on the page.

That single act of choosing what to keep was the learning itself, and the keyboard had quietly skipped the choosing and skipped the learning along with it.

Two studies. Two countries. Same answer.

Handwriting makes the brain work. Typing lets it coast.

Every note you have ever typed instead of written went into your brain through a thinner pipe. Every meeting, every book highlight, every idea you captured on your phone instead of on paper was processed at half depth.

You did not forget those things because your memory is bad. You forgot them because typing never woke the part of the brain that would have made them stick.

The fix is the thing your grandmother already knew.

Pick up a pen. Write the thing down. The slower road is the faster one.

[Gina @ginnydmm]

Probably the BEST speech by Ramaposer to date!!

[Jaco Engelbrecht @Jacobwithasea]

@PieterVand37940 @ChristinaPushaw I haven't been to the theatre in over two weeks.

[Zille for Mayor @HelenZille4Jozi]

Joburg Metro Centre Part 1 - The Chase 🏃🏽💨

Tomorrow we reveal everything we found inside the building and why the ANC and their coalition partners don’t want you to see it.

[truthache @truthache68]

🥑🍎✨ Giving you the grocery store knowledge they don’t teach American consumers.

Real talk on what’s actually in our food, what to avoid, and how to shop smarter. 🧠🛒

⚠️ They’re feeding us poison—then pushing pills and “cures” for the problems they helped create. We’re meant to eat natural food, not ultra-processed junk.

Do you actually read labels? 👀

✅ Drop this to every grocery shopper, health nut, and truther you know.

Big thanks to @northfreshfarm for the eye-opening info + solid resources (grow kits, buyer’s guides and more in the bio).

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Can someone please explain, in very simple language, how growing almonds in a Californian desert, draining the local aquifer until the ground subsides, spraying the entire crop with fungicides because almonds can't survive without them, killing off the commercial bee population in the process, then refrigerating the harvest and shipping it six thousand miles to Britain is environmentally friendly,

but buying a piece of beef from a farmer twelve miles down the road, whose cattle eat the grass that grows in the rain that falls on the hills that have been there since before anyone had opinions about this,

is a planetary emergency?

Asking for the cow.

[No Farmers, No Food @NoFarmsNoFoods]

Farmers and local farm shops are using social media to sell their food. Supermarkets pay them pittance for their food and a vindictive government punishes them. So they are taking the matter into their own hands and trying to sell direct via social media. Support our farmers.