KwaZulu-Natal doctors on Monday defied a court order which compelled them to go back to work.
?We will continue with the strike until our demands are met. We are defying the court order,? said KwaZulu-Natal striking doctors' spokesperson Dr Shailendra Sham.
On Saturday, the Labour Court in Durban granted the health department an interim interdict forcing health workers to return to work.
Sham said doctors were angered by the department?s move to suspend certain doctors who took part in the strike.
"We have been told that six doctors have been suspended and some have been receiving phone calls from the administration office."
He said doctors were gathering outside the Nelson Mandela School of Medicine in Durban on Monday morning.
Doctors at several hospitals countrywide embarked on an illegal strike earlier this month to protest against the so-called Occupational Specific Dispensation, which is an adjustment of salary grades for public servants.
Durban was the most affected by the strike.
The provincial department of health was not immediately available to comment.
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