This chapter asks how the revitalised debate about our land question relates to the transformation of property law. Drawing on Van der Walt, Walker, Ngcukaitobi and Wilson and focusing on developments in two areas of land law – home evictions and mining rights disputes – the chapter proposes that transformation of property law requires its democratisation. It considers the two most prominent proposals that emerged from the land debate: ‘expropriation without compensation’ and ‘state custodianship’ of land. It suggests that, despite their ostensible radicality, neither of these proposals breaks with apartheid property law. Instead, embracing the notion that absolute control over land must vest somewhere, whether in private owners or the state, both mirrors and validates the basic ‘code’ of apartheid land law: the primacy of an absolute notion of ownership. In this way, the debate has been not only limited but limiting. It has diverted our attention from the central question concerning land (how to live together justly in relation to land) and set us back in realising the democratisation of property/land law that its transformation requires.