HARARE: Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa says government has already begun to restructure the country′s civil service in an exercise expected to half the public sector wage bill by 2020.

This year public sector employment costs are seen at $3,14 billion from a budget envelope of $4,1 billion - about 91 percent - but will drop by $140 million to $3 billion, 73 percent of the 2017 budget.