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BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: It took a man like Madiba to free not just the prisoner, but the jailer as well.

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OBAMA: To show that you must trust others so they may trust you to teach that reconciliation is not a matter of ignoring a cruel past, but a means of confronting it with inclusion and generosity and truth.

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CARL AZUZ, CNN ANCHOR: Hi, welcome to CNN STUDENT NEWS. You just heard President Obama speaking in Johannesburg yesterday. The event honoring former South African President Nelson Mandela. Three things to know about Mandela`s memorial service: one, it was huge. It was held in the soccer stadium and attended by tens of thousands of people, street sweepers, actors, religious leaders, Mandela family members who spoke in between the cheers.

Two, it was symbolic. This is the same stadium where Mandela himself spoke 23 years ago after he was released from prison. He`d been serving a life sentence for fighting South Africa`s apartheid government. Mandela later became a symbol and advocate of human rights, and Tuesday`s events coincided with U.N. Human Rights Day.

Three, it was historic: 91 heads of states were there. A crowd of world leaders echoing attendance of Winston Churchill`s funeral in 1965 or Pope John Paul II in 2005. President Obama, former president George W. Bush, and former secretary of state Hillary Clinton all traveled to South Africa on the same plane.

AZUZ: You are now looking at pictures Mary Barra. She`ll make history next year. On January 15th she`ll take over as the CEO of General Motors. Barra will be the first woman ever to lead an American carmaker. It`s an industry dominated by men, women make up 21 percent of its total workforce. Barra has been part of it since she was 18 years old, working her way up over the past three decades. She was paid almost $5 million last year, as an executive focused on design, engineering and quality. A car research official says choosing a female CEO is a smart idea because most car buying decision in the U.S. are made by women. GM`s been profitable for several years, but has aggressive competition in the U.S. and challenges selling cars in Europe.