[6][page needed] The first Church of England service on record in South Africa was conducted by a naval chaplain in 1749.

"[7] James Hickenbotham made an attempt to unite CESA and the Anglican Church in South Africa in 1953.

The 1954 synod rejected the proposals as their adoption would have placed the CESA in a weakened position compared to the Anglican Church in South Africa.

George Alfred Swartz, the Bishop of Kimberley and Kuruman, representing the Episcopal Synod of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa, attended the consecration.

"[14] In a 1999 statement to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, future presiding bishop Frank Retief suggested the denomination's perceived support of apartheid was the result of a number of issues: believing government propaganda, its objection to liberation theology, and that they should remain "a-political" to concentrate on growing their small denomination.

[10] He also claimed that senior leaders had met with both P. W. Botha and F. W. de Klerk when they served as State President of South Africa to "express concern about the wrongs in south Africa" but hid these from local leadership and their congregations which "reinforced the view that we were supporters of the government and not critics".

[10] On 25 July 1993, St James Church Kenilworth was attacked by the armed wing of the Pan Africanist Congress.

[citation needed] Stephen and Aura Quirk moved to Swakopmund Namibia in the 1980's, to work at Rossing Mine.

In Swakopmund the local church had an Arminian Pastor and Stephan found himself at odds with his teaching.

George van der Westhuizen accepted a call to Welkom in the Free State to do his second term of Curacy in 1992 Mr Ingo van der Merwe (a youth for Christ worker) took the reins at St. Timothy's Church.

[19] Although REACH-SA has been excluded from the Lambeth Conference, its ministerial orders are recognised by the Anglican Communion, and these orders derive from Bishop Fred Morris, a former Anglican missionary bishop in North Africa, who moved in 1955 to South Africa, much to the irritation[citation needed] of the then Archbishop of Canterbury.

[22] The church's canons allow for lay presidency at Holy Communion and also the use of grape juice instead of fermented wine.

[24] This was controversial due to REACH-SA's status outside of the Anglican Communion, and because the consecration occurred without the knowledge of the Bishop of Newcastle.

[26] The REACH-SA was part of the South African delegation that attended GAFCON III on 17-22 June 2018 in Jerusalem.