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Personally I prefer Grand Parade, but at the current share price of TAS not sure I would sell out either. Starbucks and domino's could do very well if they get through the next few years, so patience will be required. Fortunately there is an anchor shareholder with very deep pockets so it is likely they will survive, but I would monitor this one very closely as the cash position would worry me.

Now here I differ Grande Parade has wallowed along for years ( 9 to be precise) not knowing what business it wanted to be in from piggy backing on Sun International, their Worcester Casino, Real Africa holdings etc. The problem for me was Hassen Adams made almost daily bulletins on what the business was going to do and also the rapid change of directors. So after all these years in gaming they have decided to focus on foods. Not sure if they have updated their brands data recently as they show all their gaming brands but nothing about dunkin donuts
I used to hold their shares way back but sold out . Their best period seems to have been around September 2014 when the price got to R 7.60 and it has progressively dropped since then - now on offer at around R 3.60
So in my opinion you may have to hold these shares for 10 years to see them get their act together, and I don't believe they are au feit with the food industry - so why go into it  

Here's a conundrum which I just can't fathom the logic of the markets reaction to. Taste is instituting a claw back offer wherein existing shareholder can take up (on a ratio basis) additional shares at R 1.50 and that they will rank with the existing shares at the same par value. Now I can fathom that the share should move marginally lower than current prices to offset the greater quantity of shares in circulation. But surely the sellers would want to get a better price for their shares if they were selling based on the price of the share on the announcement date, which as the order of about R 1.95. However I see it is trading at about R 1.76. So buyers should theoretically pay more for the share right now to take advantage of being allocated shares and at the lower price, and they can then sell at a better price above the R 1.50 and make a small profit. I just find it strange that the market is seeing something that I am not seeing, because without a doubt I will follow my rights and take up the shares as the majority of their costs for conversion and the acquiring of the right to sell international product has been largely taken up in their last results released today   

If has probably got something to do with fees

Sorry do not know of 1, others might be able to help. I use Twitter and follow some people doing graphs and indicating what they think on shares. U learn as you go along, i.e. one person got some nasty tweets after suggesting a couple years ago to buy a certain small cap.

Make contact with the JSE and get yourself registered with Simon Brown who runs what is termed the "Power Hour" these presentation tend to be around small cap shares/TFSA and other topics. Simons company is Just One Lap.
You could also look up Keith McLachlan as he is also talks about small cap businesses.
The JSE also used to have a quarterly presentation forum where small cap companies had 1/2 hour to present their businesses to the invited guests - this I found very useful to get a helicopter view of the companies and where they were heading

jonb - trust you still hold your STXIND - R 72.44 per 15:25's last trade

If checking your portfolio regularly is considered working then am working - even though I have been retired for almost 12 years now

I am not sure that you will find shares that pay dividends monthly - and are you looking local or foreign markets. If you are able to generate an investable amount of R 5,000 per month (presumption) then you may be better off investing a 32 day account with interest back into the source account. There are not too many ETF that will give you a reasonable dividend return that will compete with a short term bank investment, and I am not aware that any equity based investment gives you a monthly dividend stream most are quarterly as the shortest cycle

It may pay you to accumulate some funds as a short term approach in a monthly returning investment and then when you have the prescribed minimum deposit requiremtn move the funds to that account to purchase your equities.
The big issue for me is your need for a monthly dividend stream which I don't think you will find - maybe a forumite can clarify if such funds do in effect exist