1. The City won a top architecture award for its massive Warwick Junction Project, led by the Council’s Inner eThekwini Regeneration and Urban Management Programme (ITrump)
     
  2. The City’s Engineering Department scooped two awards for its projects at a top municipal engineering awards ceremony held in Bloemfontein.
     
  3. Durban was voted as the leading call centre city when Durbanites scooped nine of 13 categories up for grabs at the Dimension Data National BPO Awards.
     
  4. The eThekwini Mucipality received the national Govan Mbeki Award for being the only metro in the country to deliver low and middle-income housing at a large scale.
     
  5. The Municipality scooped the 2008 municipal award for excellence for its outstanding service delivery.