‘Wage bill will be down by 50% in 2019’

Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa says the government has set itself a three-year target to reduce the current wage bill from gobbling over 90% of State revenue to just 50%.

Chinamasa, who has been pushing for a huge cut in the government wage bill, yesterday said he was aware that the process would take years to accomplish. He said by 2019, nearly 40% of the bill should be creamed off.

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