Mbeki told reporters at the national election operations centre of the African National Congress in Sandton: "I think they have seen the deployment of the security organs... across the country.
We are interested indeed that there should be peaceful elections."
He said it was incorrect that there was voter apathy as some "strange people" had suggested.
"People are going to go out and vote," Mbeki said.
It was wrong for Home Affairs Minister Mangosuthu Buthelezi to suggest that most Independent Electoral Commission officers were ANC members, and they would favour the ANC.
Mbeki said he would not assume that because people were Inkatha Freedom Party or Democratic Alliance members they would act contrary to the electoral law.
"You can't say because MEO (municipal electoral officers) don't belong to my political party they will be biased," Mbeki said.
He said "some people are not going to do well in the elections" and they were "preparing some dossier... looking for excuses" for performing badly.
"The bad thing about it is that you discredit the democratic order in the country. I think it's very wrong."
Mbeki was speaking to reporters after visiting the Ipelegeng Community Centre in Soweto.
The Ipelegeng centre would serve as the local elections operations centre of the ANC. Most people working at the ANC election centres had cellphones with programmed numbers.
Mbeki said a radio news report which suggested campaigns of political parties had ended was incorrect as the deadline for the campaigns was midnight, Tuesday.
"I hope we sort this out because the communication coming out of this radio (report)... could create confusion for many people," he said - Sapa.
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