History
TNT magazine was founded in 1983 by Ali and Ghadir Razuki, two Iraqi brothers. Their family had to leave Iraq for the UK in 1968 when Saddam Hussein's Ba'ath Party, then led by Ahmed Hassan Al-Bakr, came to power. The two brothers regularly socialised with Australians and New Zealanders and after recognising the difficulty their friends faced in getting regular news and sport updates from home, the brothers, then aged 18 and 22, set about creating a weekly magazine to meet the needs of the hundreds of thousands of Aussies and Kiwis in London (South Africans did not arrive in large numbers until the post-apartheid era in the early 1990s). The first edition had a pagination of 48 pages, and within several years this had risen to 350 pages with a weekly print run of 75,000. Following their success, the brothers sold TNT to Trader Media Group in 2000.
TNT magazine was acquired in 2008 by Red Reef Media.
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