Stafford Clarence Jacobs grew up in Vasco and he began schooling at Vasco Preparatory School.  Due to the Group Areas Act, his family was forcibly moved from Vasco to Factreton and later moved to Windermere, now commonly called Kensington. He completed his schooling at Windermere Primary School and Windermere High School.

The Church played a pivotal role in shaping his Social Awareness and Political Conscience. In 1976, he was one of the Leaders of the First Cape Town Bus Boycott together with the likes of Professor Brian Williams, Former SA Minister of Finance, Trevor Manuel, and others.

After completing a Three-Year Diploma in Theology at the Federal Theological Seminary in Pietermaritzburg, he was Ordained to the Priesthood in the Anglican Diocese of Cape Town. Since then, he served as a Parish Priest in Bellville South, Bredasdorp and surrounding towns, Woodlands, Mitchells Plain, Clanwilliam and surrounding towns, Kleinvlei and Malibu Village. During this period, he completed a BA Honours Degree in Christian Studies at the University of Cape Town (UCT)

From 2005 to 2008, Stafford was seconded by Archbishop Njongongkulu Ndungane as the Diocesan Secretary and Treasurer to the Diocese of Kimberley and Kuruman. On his return to Cape Town, he was appointed as Archdeacon of Namaqualand North. In 2012 he was appointed as Diocesan Dean of Studies and Chaplain to the Bishop of Saldanha Bay. During this period, he was invited by the University of Western Cape (UWC) as Lecturer in Ethics and Religious Studies. From 2013 to 2020, he was the Rector of the Parish of St Anne, Maitland with St Athanasius, Maitland Garden Village, from which he retired in December 2020.

At the height of our Resistance to Apartheid, Stafford was involved in leading civil protest marches and other Community Defiance Projects. In 1992 to 1994, because of his stand in the Civic and Political Realm in the Clanwilliam Community, he was elected Chair of Non-Statutory Component for the SA Pre-Interim Negotiating Forum. His hobbies include Genealogical Research which he extensively carried out over the past 36 years. He has recently retired from Full Time Ministry. 

“Being a rather disillusioned Capetonian in particular and South African in general in respect of the route that politics has taken, I have decided to “Step up to the Plate” and avail myself as a CA 1st Candidate in the forthcoming SA Local Government Elections in the hope of being an Agent of Change.  It would be fair to say that I have shifted my Ministry from the confines of a Church Setting to one in the broader Community.” Stafford Clarence Jacobs