"... with South Africa having won the 2010 Soccer World Cup bid, we will have to show the world we are capable of delivering a successful world-class event."
He said it was also significant that for the first time, Mbeki had incorporated ideas pushed by opposition parties.
FF Plus leader Dr Pieter Mulder welcomed the plans laid out by Mbeki but said he expected many of the projects to fail.
"... not because there is something wrong with these plans, but because the necessary expertise simply does not exist on the delivering level. In state departments and at the level of local government the necessary expertise and experience needed to implement the plans indicated in the speech, do not exist."
Mulder urged government to consider a project to bring back "old expertise and experience" to help carry out these plans.
Business Against Crime (BAC) also praised the address.
BAC chief executive officer, Kenny Fihla, said Mbeki's plan to address the underlying causes of crime such as poverty and his intention to strengthen the criminal justice system would go a long way towards curbing crime.
"We at BAC have long held the view that while it is important to improve the criminal justice system, it is equally important to address the root causes of crime such as grinding poverty and massive unemployment."
Fihla stressed that fighting crime was not the sole domain of government.
"We should all become involved in the various aspects of crime prevention," he said. - Sapa
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