Zimbabwe mulls issuing treasury bills to compensate evicted white farmers

Zimbabwe's government may issue treasury bills, along with imposing a land levy, to raise money to compensate evicted white farmers but the process will take a long time to settle, Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa said on Thursday. President Robert Mugabe early this month agreed to major reforms, including compensation for white farmers, as part of measures to end Zimbabwe's isolation by the West. Chinamasa told a meeting of farmers, Western ambassadors to Harare and government officials that