Australian politicians and Zimbabweans have called for the deportation of key Mugabe surrogate Reason Wafawarova a former director of Zimbabwe’s youth Militia who has been residing in Australia for nearly five years over allegations that he is spying for Zimbabwe ’s self-inaugurated president Robert Mugabe.

Writting in The African Path last week, a Zimbabwean blogger Mufaro Stig Hove accused Wafawarova of Hypocrisy,”…Mugabe and his revolutionary ideals can go to Hell! Hypocrites who write from Australia like Reason Wafawarova should not exhibit such insensitivity.”

A journalist writing under the pen name MuckRaker in The Independent slammed Wafawarova, “Why don’t Peter Mavunga and Reason Wafawarova want to live in Zimbabwe? … They prefer the comfort of Britain, the US and Australia. What courage do these lick spittle commentators have in running away from their homeland and then pretending that the country is being ably managed by a hero of the African revolution? None of them have to live with the consequences of his disastrous policies but they choose to speak on his behalf. Mavunga and Wafawarova: Please come home. We want you to actually experience the reality here!”, wrote the Muckraker.

“We call on the Howard government to investigate Mr Wafawarova for crimes against humanity committed in Zimbabwe and to arrest him if there is sufficient grounds,” said Peter Murphy, Secretary of the Zimbabwe Information Centre in Sydney.

Australian Senator Stott Despoja has since bought up Wafawarova’s case in the Australian Parliament and grilled the Foreign Affairs Minister why he is not taking seriously the presence in Australia of Wafawarova.

Two years ago, Australia’s Radio National’s Background Briefing profiled Wafawarova, who it alleged has continuing links with the ruling party, Zanu-PF.

Wendy Carlisle reported Zimbabwe Parliament’s Hansard as showing Wafawarova “had one of the most senior roles” in the Ministry of Youth, the organisation responsible for training Zimbabwe’s youth militia, once described by Robert Mugabe as Zanu PF’s “big, hard-knuckled fist”.

Wafawarova denied this role and took exception and sued the program. He said on the Background Briefing program, “the reports that I was a Director doing the duties you mentioned are just malicious and untrue.”

The matter was heard in Supreme Court in October last year and the court dismissed Wafawarova’s claim that he should be paid for defamation but instructed Radio National to retract that Wafawarova was personally responsible for murdering MDC supporters,but only directed the militia.

According to sources the issue of Wafawarova’s visa was discussed during the John Howard government by Immigration Minister Kevin Andrews but the Howard government was voted out before a decision could be made in December last year.

According to documents in the possession of Metro,Wafawarova’s case number was 07/506526 under IMMIGRATION AND ENTRY CONTROL – and the Minister of Immigration was set to sign a deportation order.

The current Minister for Immigration and Citizenship Senator Chris Evans, who replaced Kevin Andrews is reportedly keen to reopen Wafawarova’s case and reach a speedy decision.

Immigration experts told Metro that the Minister might evoke the ‘Character test’ clause in the Immigration Act.

The clause states, that a visa holder can fail the character test where “they have, or have had, an association with an individual, group or organisation suspected of having been, or being, involved in criminal conduct.”

Wafawarova who used to be a political columnist for Metro,but was later dropped by the publication following protests from its readers that his articles were fanning hate and celebrating violence against MDC opponents, is a regular contributor in the government mouth piece The Herald.

In his latest article in The Herald discussing the jeering of Mugabe in parliament by MDC Members of Parliament, a common trend in parliaments worldwide, Wafawarova said ZANU PF must retaliate by assassinating those MPs.

“I will add and say in Zimbabwe we do not play silly parliamentary democracy games over the legacy of our independency. Kill those MPs and we will rekill them again in the next life”, wrote Wafawarova.

Opponents accuse Mugabe and many of his senior aides from ZANU PF of gross human rights abuses and possible war crimes including the Matabeleland massacres of the 1980s and the recent political terror campaign led by Youths from the National Service has killed some 146 opposition supporters.

Meanwhile Australia has tightened visa requirements for Zimbabweans intending to further their studies in that country.

Australia’s Department of Immigration said that country had imposed tough visa requirements for students from Zimbabwe.